Udarnik is a Russian

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, Bosnian

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, Croatian

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 and Serbian

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 term for a superproductive worker in the Soviet Union

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 and ex-Yugoslavia. The term is derived from the expression "udarny trud" for "superproductive, enthusiastic labour", which is often translated as strike labour (udar "shock, strike, blow"), and udarnik as strike worker, respectively.

Related terms are "Shock labour team" (udarnaya brigada, often translated as strike brigade) and "Udarnik of Communist Labour" (Ударник коммунистического труда), a Soviet honorary title

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. This is in contrast to the phrase shock troops

Shock troops

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, which is a translation from a German

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 term.

This terminology is also seen in texts related to work in other Communist state

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s, most notably in the People's Republic of China

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, North Korea

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, People's Republic of Poland

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, People's Republic of Bulgaria and Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia

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.

See also

• Alexey Stakhanov
• Alija Sirotanović
  Alija Sirotanovic
  Alija Sirotanović was a Yugoslav miner, Hero of Socialist Labour and perhaps the most famous of all Yugoslav udarniks...
  
  
• Arif Heralić
  Arif Heralic
  Arif Heralić was a metal worker on a blast furnace in Zenica. His picture was taken by N. Bibić, a Borba news photographer, in 1954 and from the papers he came to feature on a 1000 Yugoslav "1945 dinar" and a 10 Yugoslav "1965 dinar" banknote. As a disabled worker, Heralić died in extreme poverty...
  
  
• Stakhanovite
  Stakhanovite
  In Soviet history and iconography, a Stakhanovite follows the example of Aleksei Grigorievich Stakhanov, employing hard work or Taylorist efficiencies to over-achieve on the job.- History :...
  
  
• Socialist emulation