Subbotnik

Subbotnik

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Subbotnik and voskresnik (from Russian words суббота IPA| [suˈbotə] for Saturday and воскресенье IPA| [vəskrʲɪˈsʲenʲjɪ] for Sunday) were days of volunteer work in the Soviet Union. The tradition is continued in modern Russia and other former Soviet Republics. [cite web | url = http://rigadailyphoto.blogspot.com/2008/09/liela-talka.html | title = Riga Subbotnik | accessdate = 2008-09-14] Subbotniks are mostly organized for cleansing the streets of garbage.

The first subbotnik was held on April 12, 1919, at the Moscow-Sortirovochnaya railway depot of the Moscow-Kazan Railway upon the initiative of local bolsheviks.

The first all-Russian subbotnik was held on May 1, 1920, the one participated by Vladimir Lenin who took part in removing building rubble in the Moscow Kremlin, an episode portrayed in a famous painting by Vladimir Krikhatsky, "Lenin at the First Subbotnik", of Lenin carrying a log. Lenin was excited by the idea of subbotniks, regarding them as seeds of free labour of communism.

Eventually "communist subbotniks" and "voskresniks" became obligatory political events in the Soviet Union, with annual "Lenin's Subbotnik" being held in the vicinity of Lenin's birthday.

Subbotnik was also promoted in the 1950s in the Eastern Bloc countries and in particular in the German Democratic Republic (GDR), as the USSR sought to build up the GDR as the westernmost outpost of socialism in Europe. They did not meet with much enthusiasm from most workers who complained of the need to work during weekends.

ee also

*Corvée
*Working Saturday

External links

* [http://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1920/may/02.htm Lenin's article about subbotniks]

* [http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=E1_GJTGDQT&CFID=950809&CFTOKEN=86779228 Modern Subbotniks have been performed, on at least one occasion by immigrants from the Former Soviet Union.]


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