Time, forward!
"The central event in Time, forward! is a successful attempt by a brigade of workmen at Magnitogorsk, in competition with a brigade working in Karkov, to break the world's record for pouring concrete. The vivid action reveals the mechanisms developed in the USSR during the First Five-Year Plan in an effort to motivate workers to outdo themselves: shock brigades, socialist competition, Stakhanovism, slogans, public acclaim of 'heroes of labor' and opproprium for 'shirkers'. The dominant image …
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- Full title :Time, forward! / Valentine Kataev ; authorized translation from the Russian by Charles Malamuth.
Summary
"The central event in Time, forward! is a successful attempt by a brigade of workmen at Magnitogorsk, in competition with a brigade working in Karkov, to break the world's record for pouring concrete. The vivid action reveals the mechanisms developed in the USSR during the First Five-Year Plan in an effort to motivate workers to outdo themselves: shock brigades, socialist competition, Stakhanovism, slogans, public acclaim of 'heroes of labor' and opproprium for 'shirkers'. The dominant image is the speeding up of time in the Soviet Union, where a century's work must be done in ten years." (Edward J. Brown, page [2] of foreword)
Read More ↓Edition Statements
- Publication Date:©1933
- Edition:1st Midland book ed
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Indiana University Press
- Place of Publication:Bloomington
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©1933
The Physical Object
- Description:345 pages ; : 22 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:0253360188, 9780253360182, 0253202043, 9780253202048
- oclc:ocm02609421
- LC Classification:PG3476.K4
- Dewey Decimal:891.7/3/42
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