2017-№2 (55) Article 6

G.Sh. Sagatelyan, S.A. Dyadya

Crisis of the Soviet motivation system in the 1930–1980s C. 46- 57.

UDC 331.04(09)(47)«19»

The paper focuses on the crisis experienced by the socialist worker motivation system in the 1930–1980s. The paper maintains that in the 1930s the problem of worker motivation could not be fully solved, for the country experienced a difficult period and wanted quick monetary infusions. The achievements of the Stakhanovite movement were undermined, and the system of economic motivation was substituted by the system of wage leveling, which was widely spread until the end of 1991. However the system of wage-leveling failed to foster high productivity. Low productivity, in its turn, undermined high wages. The socialist system failed to break the vicious circle.

The soviet worker motivation system collapsed under the weight of shadow economy which affected industry, commerce, agriculture, transportation, communication, etc. Shadow economy undermined the communist ideology, disrupted the authority of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union (CPSU), declassed Soviet society, and promoted apolitical ambiguity. The failure of socialism was closely connected with the degradation and collapse of the soviet worker motivation system.

wage-leveling system, Stakhanovite movement, soviet worker motivation system, shadow economy, legal economy and underground economy, erosion of communist ideology.

 

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