Erich von Falkenhayn
Erich von Falkenhayn , 1861-1922, German military officer. Minister of war from 1906 to 1915, he succeeded (1914) Moltke as chief of the German general staff. He was successful on the Eastern front during World War I, but after the disaster at Verdun (1916) he was replaced (Aug., 1916) by Hindenburg . Falkenhayn later commanded (1916) the invasion of Romania, and in 1917 led German reinforcements in Palestine.
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Mobilizing Soviet Peasants: Heroines and Heroes of Stalin's Fields
Magazine article from: Canadian Slavonic Papers; 3/1/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...serious gap in the existing literature on Stakhanovism by exploring how the movement affected...correspondents) in shaping the discourse of Stakhanovism, and resistance to the movement...attention to the official versions of how Stakhanovism begin in the countryside. She argues...
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LETTERS : Russian copy
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London; 1/8/1995; ; 297 words
; Your editorial on the new Stakhanovism ("Welcome back, Stakhanov...those providing it. However, Stakhanovism does not really have its roots...and Taylorism. The origins of Stakhanovism are very close to home and lie...
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Paul Outerbridge, Jr. (photographer)
Magazine article from: Artforum International; 5/1/1995; ; 700+ words
; ...and uncertain, demanding huge expense and 9 1/2 hours of darkroom excruciation per print. The reward of this delicate Stakhanovism is a nonpareil tour de force of photographic color: pearlescent, plush, at once ultravivid - lurid almost - and superbly...
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 "The Evening Standard (London, England)")
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Decline and fall of modern Britain; Wilson's eccentricities: an admiration for the bizarrely contrary figures of Margaret Thatcher and John Major ? and a peculiar crush on artist Tracey Emin (above).
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England); 9/15/2008; 700+ words
; ...novels, biographies, exegeses, and now this, almost magisterial trilogy of British histories suggests a steeliness a Stakhanovism, even that is only held in check by waspishness, and an inveterate tendency to ?pater whoever he can. Wilson it was who...
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Underground economy in Ukraine: Illegal minesLegitimate work is too hard to find
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 6/20/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...became an icon of socialist-realist propaganda in the 1930s and lives on in the concept of production speed-ups known as Stakhanovism.The contrast with today could not be starker. Miners' wages are extremely low, averaging $160 a month at state mines...
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Decline and fall of modern Britain ; In the final volume of his history trilogy, AN Wilson skewers the follies of all and sundry from Churchill to Blair, providing a highly entertaining social commentary along the wayOur Times: The Age of Elizabeth II
Newspaper article from: Evening Standard - London; 9/15/2008; ; 700+ words
; ...novels, biographies, exegeses, and now this, almost magisterial trilogy of British histories suggests a steeliness a Stakhanovism, even that is only held in check by waspishness, and an inveterate tendency to epater whoever he can. Wilson it was who...
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 "The Birmingham Post (England)")
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Books: Book lines.(Features)
Newspaper article from: The Birmingham Post (England); 4/12/2003; 700+ words
; ...and hold their own job at the same time, accepting the patronizing title of 'working wonders' in a kind of unofficial Stakhanovism. Some of the experience I have had first-hand of working wives has been dispiriting in the utmost. I once taught in a...
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In Ukraine, illegal mines beckon to the struggling
Newspaper article from: International Herald Tribune; 6/19/2007; ; 700+ words
; ...became an icon of socialist-realist propaganda in the 1930s and lives on in the concept of production speed-ups known as Stakhanovism.The contrast with today could not be starker. Miners' wages are extremely low - they average $160 a month at state mines...
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Newspaper article from: The Sunday Herald; 7/11/1999; ; 700+ words
; ...picture of where history has taken us in the last decade. To start at the populist end: somewhere between speciation and Stakhanovism, there is now spin doctor, defined as a political adviser with responsibility for managing the presentation of policy...
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The Politics of French Business. (book reviews)
Magazine article from: History Today; 12/1/1993; ; 700+ words
; ...delegation that visited the Soviet Union in 1945 later irritated its hosts by reporting its concerns over the ban on strikes, Stakhanovism, and the identification of unions with management. When a Soviet delegation made a return visit in 1947, just 150 turned...
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Stakhanovism
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
Stakhanovism , movement begun (1935) in the Soviet Union aimed at increasing industrial...privileges. In many cases the emphasis on speed resulted in poor quality. Stakhanovism was widely criticized outside the Soviet Union as another form of the...
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Communism
Book article from: -Ologies and -Isms
...socialization the establishment of socialist government; the nationalization of industry and other national resources. Stakhanovism a system of piecework incentives, speedup, and competition for bonuses and honors introduced into Russia in 1935 and named...
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Stakhanovite Movement
Encyclopedia entry from: Encyclopedia of Russian History
...Eastern Europe. See also: industrialization, soviet; kulturnost; soviet man bibliography Siegelbaum, Lewis H. (1988). Stakhanovism and the Politics of Productivity in the USSR, 1935 – 1941. New York: Cambridge University Press. Thurston...
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