Stakhanov Movement: An Analysis Based On The Perspective Of Political Mobilization

As the world’s first proletarian regime, the Soviet Union has been under sieged among Western capitalism from the beginning of the birth, to the 1930s, the Soviet domestic and international situation is becoming increasingly serious, thus the rapid development of socialist construction and the rapid realization of socialist industrialization is particularly necessary. In this context, the socialist labor emulation Stakhanov movement began to spread like wildfire in 1935. Look from the perspective of political mobilization can be found, the rise and development of the Stakhanov movement is inseparable from the mobilization and promotion of the CPSU.CPSU successfully selected and shaped the Stakhanov labor hero image, and through the active mobilization and interactive use of negative mobilization strategies effectively promoted the Stakhanov movement carried out in the country. From the mobilizing effect, the Stakhanov movement carried out a substantial increase in labor productivity and promoted socialist industrialization, the movement also help the Soviet Union completed to achieve the development of the Soviet economy and the mind to defend the regime’s, but the differentiated resource supply policy and wage distribution policy also caused the gradual formation of the Soviet Union "labor aristocracy" class.From the political mobilization mechanism used in the Soviet Stakhanov movement we can see, the mechanism of political mobilization of the CPSU have achieved positive results in no doubt in Stakhanov movement, but it also produced very obvious shortcomings in the course of the operation. Therefore, the comments to the mechanism of political mobilization mainly concentrated on three aspects:highlight the superiority of institutional, path dependence and governing mode become rigid, political mobilization mechanism tend to non-institutionalized. From the analysis on system, idea and process we can see, the CPSU blindly settle for the achievements from the movement but stopped evolve to the institutionalize and standardized development mode, which ultimately resulted in the Soviet system lost the ability to to reform and innovate, foreshadowed the disintegration of the Soviet Union.