Competitive Beginning of the Professional Development of Workers in 1989- 1991 years
Contest or competition? By the end of the 1980s the issue decided in favor of competition, and the “engine of progress” was unanimously sent to the archive. Newspapers and magazines have started unprecedented game: who attack the Stakhanovite movement and its proponents with more power. But even without ofﬁcial status, it has continued to exist among factory workers, because, according to A. Gelman, there is an ineradicable need for a person in this competition. For that reason, an analysis and determination of place and role of contest and competition within the working class during the period of Perestroika before the strike movement of 1989 and 1991 is presented.