Stalin Joseph. The Stakhanov Movement in the Soviet Union

New York: Workers Library Publishers, 1935. — 22 p.The First Conference of Stakhanovites of Industry and Transport of the Soviet Union opened on November 14, 1935, in the Kremlin in Moscow. It was attended by three thousand shockworkers — men and women — Stakhanovites working in every branch of heavy industry, light industry, the timber industry and on the railways. The Conference was marked by the greatest enthusiasm. At its close, on November 17, Stalin, who was accorded a stormy and prolonged ovation by the working men and women attending the Conference, delivered the historic speech published in this pamphlet.