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Aleksei Gastev, the Glossary

Aleksei Kapitonovich Gastev (Алексей Капитонович Гастев) (8 October 1882, Suzdal, Vladimir Governorate – 15 April 1939, Kommunarka, Moscow) was a Russian revolutionary, a pioneering theorist of the scientific management of labour in Soviet Russia, a trade-union activist, and an avant-garde writer and poet.^[1]

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People from Suzdal

Alexander Dolgun

Alexander Michael Dolgun (29 September 1926 – 28 August 1986) was an American survivor of the Soviet Gulag who wrote about his experiences in 1975 after being allowed to leave the Soviet Union.

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The All-Russian Metalworkers Union was a Russian Trade Union founded in 1918.

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Anatoly Lunacharsky

Anatoly Vasilyevich Lunacharsky (Анато́лий Васи́льевич Лунача́рский, born Anatoly Aleksandrovich Antonov; – 26 December 1933) was a Russian Marxist revolutionary and the first Bolshevik Soviet People's Commissar (Narkompros) responsible for the Ministry of Education as well as an active playwright, critic, essayist, and journalist throughout his career. Aleksei Gastev and Anatoly Lunacharsky are Old Bolsheviks.

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Assembly line

An assembly line is a manufacturing process (often called a progressive assembly) in which parts (usually interchangeable parts) are added as the semi-finished assembly moves from workstation to workstation where the parts are added in sequence until the final assembly is produced.

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Avant-garde

In the arts and in literature, the term avant-garde (from French meaning advance guard and vanguard) identifies an experimental genre, or work of art, and the artist who created it; which usually is aesthetically innovative, whilst initially being ideologically unacceptable to the artistic establishment of the time.

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Émile Verhaeren

Émile Adolphe Gustave Verhaeren (21 May 1855 – 27 November 1916) was a Belgian poet and art critic who wrote in the French language.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Central Institute of Labour

The Central Institute of Labour (CIT) (Центральный институт труда) was an organisation set up in Moscow for the study of work.

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Citroën

CitroënThe double-dot diacritic over the 'e' is a diaeresis (tréma) indicating the two vowels are sounded separately, and not as a diphthong.

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Clément-Bayard

Clément-Bayard, Bayard-Clément, was a French manufacturer of automobiles, aeroplanes and airships founded in 1903 by entrepreneur Gustave Adolphe Clément.

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Council of Labor and Defense

The Council of Labor and Defense (Russian: Совет труда и обороны (СТО) Sovet truda i oborony, Latin acronym: STO), first established as the Council of Workers' and Peasants' Defense in November 1918, was an agency responsible for the central management of the economy and production of military materiel in the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and later in the Soviet Union.

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Europe-Asia Studies

Europe-Asia Studies is an academic peer-reviewed journal published 10 times a year by Routledge on behalf of the Institute of Central and East European Studies, University of Glasgow, and continuing (since vol. 45, 1993) the journal Soviet Studies (vols. 1–44, 1949–1992), which was renamed after the dissolution of the Soviet Union.

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Fedor Kalinin

Fedor Ivanovich Kalinin (Russian: Фёдор Иванович Калинин; 14 February 1882 – 5 February 1920) was a Russian revolutionary, literary critic and writer. Aleksei Gastev and Fedor Kalinin are Old Bolsheviks.

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Ford Motor Company

Ford Motor Company (commonly known as Ford) is an American multinational automobile manufacturer headquartered in Dearborn, Michigan, United States.

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Frederick Winslow Taylor

Frederick Winslow Taylor (March 20, 1856 – March 21, 1915) was an American mechanical engineer.

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Gosstandart

Gosstandart (Госстандарт) was the Soviet government agency responsible for standardization, metrology, and quality management.

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Great Purge

The Great Purge, or the Great Terror (translit), also known as the Year of '37 (label) and the Yezhovshchina (label), was Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin's campaign to consolidate power over the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and Soviet state.

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Henry Ford

Henry Ford (July 30, 1863 – April 7, 1947) was an American industrialist and business magnate.

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Industrialisation

Industrialisation (UK) or industrialization (US) is the period of social and economic change that transforms a human group from an agrarian society into an industrial society.

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John H. Noble

John H. Noble (September 4, 1923 – November 10, 2007) was an American survivor of the Soviet Gulag system, who wrote several books which described his experiences in it after he was permitted to leave the Soviet Union and return to the United States.

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Kommunarka

Kommunarka is an urban-type settlement (posyolok) in Sosenskoye Settlement, Novomoskovsky Administrative Okrug, Moscow, Russia.

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Mikhail Gerasimov (poet)

Mikhail Prokofyevich Gerasimov (a; 12 October 1889 in Buguruslan – 26 June 1939 in Moscow) was one of the most widely read working-class poets in early-twentieth-century Russia.

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Moscow

Moscow is the capital and largest city of Russia.

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Nadezhda Krupskaya

Nadezhda Konstantinovna Krupskaya (p; – 27 February 1939) was a Russian revolutionary and the wife of Vladimir Lenin. Aleksei Gastev and Nadezhda Krupskaya are Old Bolsheviks.

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Nikolay Dobrolyubov

Nikolay Alexandrovich Dobrolyubov (a; 5 February 1836 – 29 November 1861) was a Russian poet, literary critic, journalist, and prominent figure of the Russian revolutionary movement.

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Pergamon Press

Pergamon Press was an Oxford-based publishing house, founded by Paul Rosbaud and Robert Maxwell, that published scientific and medical books and journals.

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Peter Palchinsky

Peter Akimovich Palchinsky (Пётр Иоаки́мович (Аки́мович) Пальчи́нский; –22 May 1929) was a Russian engineer who played a significant role in the introduction of scientific method into Russian industry.

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Platon Kerzhentsev

Platon Mikhailovich Kerzhentsev (Плато́н Миха́йлович Ке́рженцев), (real name Lebedev (Ле́бедев), pseudonym V. Kerzhentsev; 4 August 1881 – 2 June 1940) was a Soviet state and party official, revolutionary, diplomat, journalist, historian, playwright and theatre and arts theorist who was involved with the Proletkult movement. Aleksei Gastev and Platon Kerzhentsev are Old Bolsheviks.

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Proletkult

Proletkult (p), a portmanteau of the Russian words "proletarskaya kultura" (proletarian culture), was an experimental Soviet artistic institution that arose in conjunction with the Russian Revolution of 1917.

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Prose poetry

Prose poetry is poetry written in prose form instead of verse form while otherwise deferring to poetic devices to make meaning.

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Quality assurance

Quality assurance (QA) is the term used in both manufacturing and service industries to describe the systematic efforts taken to assure that the product(s) delivered to customer(s) meet with the contractual and other agreed upon performance, design, reliability, and maintainability expectations of that customer.

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Robert Robinson (engineer)

Robert Nathaniel Robinson (June 22, 1906 – February 23, 1994) was a Jamaican-born toolmaker who worked in the auto industry in the United States.

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Russian Futurism

Russian Futurism is the broad term for a movement of Russian poets and artists who adopted the principles of Filippo Marinetti's "Manifesto of Futurism", which espoused the rejection of the past, and a celebration of speed, machinery, violence, youth, industry, destruction of academies, museums, and urbanism; it also advocated for modernization and cultural rejuvenation.

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The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP;, Rossiyskaya sotsial-demokraticheskaya rabochaya partiya (RSDRP)), also known as the Russian Social Democratic Workers' Party or the Russian Social Democratic Party, was a socialist political party founded in 1898 in Minsk (then in Northwestern Krai of the Russian Empire, present-day Belarus). Aleksei Gastev and Russian Social Democratic Labour Party are Old Bolsheviks.

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The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Soviet Republic and the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the laboring and exploited people, article I. was an independent federal socialist state from 1917 to 1922, and afterwards the largest and most populous constituent republic of the Soviet Union (USSR) from 1922 to 1991, until becoming a sovereign part of the Soviet Union with priority of Russian laws over Union-level legislation in 1990 and 1991, the last two years of the existence of the USSR..

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Saint Petersburg

Saint Petersburg, formerly known as Petrograd and later Leningrad, is the second-largest city in Russia after Moscow.

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Scientific management

Scientific management is a theory of management that analyzes and synthesizes workflows.

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Slavic Review

The Slavic Review is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly studies, book and film reviews, and review essays in all disciplines concerned with "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present".

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Social engineering is a term which has been used to mean top-down efforts to influence particular attitudes and social behaviors on a large scale—most often undertaken by governments, but also carried out by media, academia or private groups—in order to produce desired characteristics in a target population.

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A social enterprise is an organization that applies commercial strategies to maximize improvements in financial, social and environmental well-being.

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Suzdal

Suzdal (Суздаль) is a town that serves as the administrative center of Suzdalsky District in Vladimir Oblast, Russia, which is located near the Kamenka River, north of the city of Vladimir.

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Syndicalism

Syndicalism is a revolutionary current within the labour movement that, through industrial unionism, seeks to unionize workers according to industry and advance their demands through strikes, with the eventual goal of gaining control over the means of production and the economy at large through social ownership.

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The Ghost of the Executed Engineer

The Ghost of the Executed Engineer: Technology and the Fall of the Soviet Union is a documentary book written by Loren Graham, an MIT professor specializing in the history of modern Russian science that criticizes the direction of Soviet industrialization.

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Thomas Sgovio

Thomas Sgovio (7 October 1916 – 3 July 1997) was an American artist, ex-Communist, and former inmate of a Soviet Union GULAG camp in Kolyma.

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Trade union

A trade union (British English) or labor union (American English), often simply referred to as a union, is an organization of workers whose purpose is to maintain or improve the conditions of their employment, such as attaining better wages and benefits, improving working conditions, improving safety standards, establishing complaint procedures, developing rules governing status of employees (rules governing promotions, just-cause conditions for termination) and protecting and increasing the bargaining power of workers.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksei_Gastev

Also known as Alexei Gastev.

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