Wage labor under the Soviet New Economic Policy and early Stalinist industrialization (1921–1938)

1. NEP adopted after War Communism crisis

   Mar 1, 1921Labels: New Economic, Communist Party

   • Britannica
   • NEP Wiki

2. Tax in kind replaces forced grain requisition

   Mar 21, 1921Labels: Tax in, Peasantry

   • NEP Wiki

3. 1922 Labour Code formalizes Soviet wage labor rules

   Jan 1, 1922Labels: 1922 Labour, RSFSR

   • Labor Code Wiki

4. Currency reforms help restore wage payments

   Jan 1, 1922Labels: Currency Reform, Monetary Policy

   • NEP Wiki

5. 1928 grain procurement crisis pressures NEP system

   Jan 1, 1928Labels: Grain Procurement, State Procurement

   • Grain crisis Wiki
   • Britannica NEP

6. NEP abandoned as planning and coercion expand

   Jan 1, 1928Labels: Central Planning, NEP Abandonment

   • Britannica NEP
   • NEP Wiki

7. Shakhty Trial signals crackdown on specialists

   May 18, 1928Labels: Shakhty Trial, Engineers

   • Shakhty Wiki

8. First Five-Year Plan launches rapid industrialization

   Oct 1, 1928Labels: First Five-Year, Industrialization

   • Britannica Plans
   • Plans Wiki

9. Law of Spikelets criminalizes petty theft severely

   Aug 7, 1932Labels: Law of, Criminal Decree

   • Spikelets Wiki

10. Unified internal passports restrict labor mobility

    Dec 27, 1932Labels: Internal Passports, Propiska

    • Passports Wiki
    • JTA 1932

11. Second Five-Year Plan continues industrial growth model

    Jan 1, 1933Labels: Second Five-Year, State Planning

    • Britannica Plans
    • Plans Wiki

12. Stakhanovite movement launches model-worker competition

    Aug 31, 1935Labels: Stakhanovite Movement, Aleksei Stakhanov

    • Encyclopedia com
    • Stakhanovites Wiki

13. 1936 Stalin Constitution guarantees right to work

    Dec 5, 1936Labels: 1936 Constitution, Stalin

    • 1936 Const Wiki

14. Employment record books reintroduced to track workers

    Dec 20, 1938Labels: Employment Record, Labor Booklet

    • Labor book Wiki