| Titre | The language and politics of socialist rationalization [Productivity, industrial relations, and the social origins of Stalinism at the end of NEP*] | |
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| Auteur | David R. Shearer | |
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Revue |
Cahiers du monde russe Titre à cette date : Cahiers du monde russe et soviétique |
| Numéro | volume 32, no 4, octobre-décembre 1991 Spécialistes, bureaucratie et administration dans l'Empire russe et en URSS, 1880 - 1945 | |
| Page | 581-608 | |
| Résumé anglais |
David R. Shearer, The language and politics of socialist rationalization.
Study of the socialist rationalization movement reveals the complexity of political and social conflict in Soviet industry during the late 1920's and early 1930's. Struggles over policy and hegemony, as expressed in debates over appropriate forms of socialist rationalization, did not cut along easily discernible social or political lines. Official rhetoric legitimated class conflict, but masked far more complex forms of social war within factories and state industrial bureaucracies. Thus, this paper argues that the Stalinist attack against the industrial apparatus in 1929 and 1930 should not be seen mainly in ideological terms, or in terms of party control vs. professional autonomy. Many engineering and administrative groups supported Stalinist policies precisely because those policies offered the prospect of expanding professional activity and authority.
The Stalinist leadership, itself divided politically, endorsed contradictory notions of socialist rationalization in its attack against NEP economic policies. The regime's productivity policies developed in an ad-hoc and contradictory manner, simultaneously embracing and encouraging technocratic, syndicalist, and radical populist tendencies. Contradictions in policy initiatives were never resolved, nor were conflicts among competing social and occupational groups that shaped the regime's policies. Violent social conflict became institutionalized in the ongoing struggles over policy and hegemony inside factories and throughout the state apparatus. Source : Éditeur (via Persée) |
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| Article en ligne | http://www.persee.fr/web/revues/home/prescript/article/cmr_0008-0160_1991_num_32_4_2299 |
