'''Specialist-baiting''' or Spetseedstvo ({{langx|ru|Спецеедство}}) was a sociological phenomena in the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 1930s where proletarian and young party members attacked specialists and professionals, causing them to be politically purged from the workplace, and allowing young inexperienced and uneducated workers to take these work positions.<ref>{{cite book |last=Fitzpatrick |first=Sheila |author-link=Sheila Fitzpatrick |date=1979 |title=Education and Social Mobility in the Soviet Union 1921-1934 |url=https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/education-and-social-mobility-in-the-soviet-union-19211934/F5F50E80F4BECA83E2543077167E5D25 |location=New York |publisher=Cambridge University Press |page= |isbn=9780511523595 }}</ref>
==See also== *Industrial Party Trial *Great Purge *New Economic Policy *First five-year plan *Second five-year plan
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Category:1930s in the Soviet Union Category:Economic history of the Soviet Union Category:Persecution of intellectuals in the Soviet Union
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