„Czasie, naprzód!” : Chronometraż w zakładzie pracy, w radzieckim społeczeństwie, w nowej rodzinie .......... 331

“TIME, FORWARD!” TIME STUDY AT WORKPLACE, IN SOVIET SOCIETY, IN A NEW FAMILY

The text discusses early-Soviet temporal experiments as attempts to transplant modernity into the traditional Russian society. The proposals of Aleksei Gastev, Platon Kerzhentsev and Nikolai Kuzmin are analyzed. Each of these concepts has moved the boundaries of social control further and further. Gastev was the founder of TsIT (Central Institute of Labor) and propagator of Frederick Taylor’s “scientific management” in the USSR. His theory of the Scientific Organization of Labor had enormous influence on the Soviet anthropology of labor. Members of The League of Time, with Kerzhentsev as their leader, did not limit their activity to the place of work but tried to implement time-motion studies in the broadly understood social life. However, the most radical project was the diploma project of house-commune for Anzhero-Sudzhensk designed by Siberian architect Nikolai Kuzmin, who extended the principles of the “red Taylorism” to the private space of everyday life.