Methods of work of the stakhanovites of the peat industry during the second and third five-year plans

The author examines some aspects of the history of the Stakhanov movement in the peat industry of the USSR on the example of centralized peat farms of the Head Office of the Peat Industry (Glavtorf) and peat processing by individual industrial enterprises and trusts in the Kuibyshev, Penza regions and the Mordovian ASSR during the pre-war five-year plans. The main attention is paid to the methods of work of the Stakhanovites of the peat industry and the chief obstacles to the successful work of the shock workers.