Talk:Shturmovshchina

Traditional peasant mentality as roots

Only a person deeply ignorant in the nature of peasant's labor may have an opinion that all what peasants do is just throw seeds into ground, then sit idly until it ripens, and then reap the harvest (frantically), and then sit idly until next spring. Only a Russophobe may think that frantic harvesting is a feature of a lazy Russian peasant. Harvesting is time-constrained almost always and everywhere, and for this reason seasonal workers are hired in rich America and poorer farmer families prefer to do it themselselves with extra effort elsewhere in the world. While it was referenced in a book, I am deleting it, since books may publish nonsense opinions quite often. - Altenmann >t 03:17, 27 February 2010 (UTC)

Thank you for your interest in this article and your contributions. In my opinon you (grossly) over-interpret that source. If I remember the source right, the climate in large swaths of Russia is particularly treacherous (remember Napoleon and Hitler) which could explain calls for sudden spurts of frantic work. We are not talking about ALL peasants. The source also sought to explain why Shturmovshchina, while evident also on universities, etc, etc, became particularly entrenched and institutionalized in Russia. On a more principal note however, you have removed a WP:RS (Cambridge University Press) with an unsourced statement, your own, I wont necessarily disagree much with you, but in Wiki-speak you may violate WP:OR. Please also read WP:NOTTRUTH. Could I ask you to reinstate that source, explain your own sensible views, and if you can source your views, that's absolutely great. If not, we will just mark it with a "citation needed" and some other editor may pass by and provide the source one day. Thanks. Power.corrupts (talk) 10:05, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

• Please point exactly which my unsourced sentence you find dubious. For the last 3 years I never put my views into the article however "sensible" they are, if they are not verifiable. - Altenmann >t 19:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
• Further, if you want, we may talk more about of "Russian Winter" legend (basically, the real problem was not weather, but arrogance of the atackers which didn't take it into an account relying on swift victory while the weather was good). It is amazing how misconceptions of Russia's exclusivity are abound both in Russia (based on nationalism) and outside (based on cliches and trereotypes). In particular, related to weather-related frantic work, Finland, Sweden, and wide stretches of Canada have comparable climate, but Soviet Union bought grain from Canada, not vice versa. In fact, Imperial Russia actually sold grain, so I guess climate was not defining factor in productivity or planning. - Altenmann >t 19:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
• Still further, in addition to WP:RS and WP:TRUTH, there is also WP:UNDUE. The book in question presented an isolated opinion of a single person which is not supported neither by factual evidence, nor reasoning, nor further refererences in this book. Hence the WP:UNDUE kicks in. Surely, you understand how many nonnotable and erroneous views we could stuff into wikipedia, if we put each and every blurb. However if you find some other source which seconds this opinion, it will gain sufficient weight, and according to WP:NOTTRUTH it may be added to an encyclopedic article, but still as an opinion, rathrer than a fact or theory. Please notice that I am not saying that the Cambridge guy was provably false: I am just saying his opinion has insufficient weight. On the other hand, the paragraph I added describes real mechanism of what was happening and what can be confirmed by other sources, including numerous Soviet sources which condemn shturmovshchina and try to combat it. Once again, the real reason for this and many other Soviet economic problems lies in faulty bureaucracy-based planned economy. Please also notice that I am aware that by itself planned economy is not 100% evil. I lived in both worlds: both in the red and in the west, and I know only too well that the economy of a big business like Ford Motors or Mitsubishi cannot work without serious forward planning. (and btw, as the cited source I added says, they had similar uneven work intensity distribution.) - Altenmann >t 19:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)
• I am sorry for a rather chaotic answer, but you raised several issues. I am happy to discuss the topics further. However now that we exchanged some general personal opinions of Russia, let us focus on the article, so let me repeat my two main points of immediate relevance:
  1. Please point out which exactly sentences I added you find dubious, per WP:V.
  2. Please state your position about the applicablity of WP:UNDUE. I understand that the proper balance of WP:RS/NOTTRUE/UNDUE requires careful consideration.

Thank you, - Altenmann >t 19:52, 2 March 2010 (UTC)

Similar English term

Whoever primarily edits this page might want to consider charrette, a period of intense work, especially group work, undertaken to meet a deadline, similar to the Russian "Goriachka". The French word charrette isn't as close a match, however. ☺ Dick Kimball (talk) 12:29, 5 May 2015 (UTC)

Three Stages of Shturmovschina

I had added three stages to this article, later they were improved by another participant. Then, in 2019, some anonymous editor removed those paragraph. I do not know who this person is. But I was born in the USSR in 1951, I worked at a factory, and I swear I know what I was talking about. The terms can be found in many sources, see e.g. https://books.google.com/books?id=uaxeAAAAQBAJ&pg=PT518&lpg=PT518&dq=%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0+%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0&source=bl&ots=7NrBsG800z&sig=ACfU3U2nL32Hv0L_ElTbgPbhl033Wp96Og&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjPkqXJzbXkAhUSIDQIHQ3nDpUQ6AEwBXoECAgQAQ#v=onepage&q=%D1%81%D0%BF%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0%20%D1%80%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%BA%D0%B0%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0%20%D0%B3%D0%BE%D1%80%D1%8F%D1%87%D0%BA%D0%B0&f=false - in "Приживется ли демократия в России" by Евгений Ясин

So I insist on keeping these paragraphs in the article. Vlad Patryshev (talk) 21:35, 3 September 2019 (UTC)