Sergey Aleksandrovich Krasilnikov,
Doctor of Historical Sciences, Institute of History of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russia, e-mail: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.
Managed Labor in Early Soviet Society: The Limits and Practices of Achievability
DOI: 10.31518/2618-9100-2023-1-1
Along with the property of universality, labor has such a qualitative, attributive characteristic as its social value. The inclusion of labor in social relations leads to the perception of its bearers from the standpoint of the significance of their activities for others, the hierarchy of the statuses of various types of labor, regulation and consolidation of these statuses. In the post-revolutionary period, values in this area acquired a dichotomous dimension: the principles of universality and obligation of labor, its social utility were opposed to exploitative, parasitic, useless activities. The mechanisms of realization by the early Soviet state of the desire to achieve a monopoly on the establishment of the hierarchical value of types of labor and the disposal of the labor potential of the population are considered. The manageability of labor relations under state control was achieved by a combination of soft and hard practices – from hiring to mobilization and forced labor with the vector of growth of the last two since the early 1930s. It was found that the total statistic of labor potential was limited by the human factor with its behavioral practices and motivational values that did not coincide with state imperatives.
Publishing: 28/02/2023
The article has been received by the editor on 29.09.2022
How to cite: Krasilnikov S.A. Managed Labor in Early Soviet Society: The Limits and Practices of Achievability // Historical Courier, 2023, No. 1 (27), pp. 19–20. [Available online: http://istkurier.ru/data/2023/ISTKURIER-2023-1-01.pdf]
Links: Issue 1 2023
Keywords: Social justice; Communist Party; nomenclature; marginalization; criminalization; society