Abstract
The article examines the course of socialist competition and shock work at the food industry enterprises in Leningrad in 1929–1935. The creation of shock brigades by the management of factories and plants is analyzed. To make shock work a mass movement, the factory administration inadvertently created a group of fake shock workers. Other reasons for the appearance of fake shock workers in production are indicated. Particular attention is paid to the activities of shock brigades; their inability to demonstrate high performance under adverse working conditions is emphasized. It tells about the ideological content of socialist competition and shock work, in which the official authorities saw a way to build socialism in the USSR. It is noted that the workers did not realize the social significance of economic and political campaigns. In order to encourage the production workers to participate more actively in the movement, an attempt was made to interest them financially, but it was not successful. It is concluded that socialist competition and shock work could not solve the tasks set by the country's leadership.
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