Editing Week (section)

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In the [[Soviet Union]] between 1929 and 1940, most factory and enterprise workers, but not collective farm workers, used five and six&nbsp;day work weeks while the country as a whole continued to use the traditional seven&nbsp;day week.<ref name=Foss>{{cite journal |first=Clive |last=Foss |title=Stalin's topsy-turvy work week |journal=History Today |volume=54 |issue=9 |date=September 2004 |pages=46–47}}</ref><ref name=Russie>{{cite web |website=iCalendrier |url=http://icalendrier.fr/calendriers-saga/etudes-thematiques/reforme-gregorienne#russie |title=La réforme en Russie: Il faudra attendre ... plus de trois siècles |language=fr |trans-title=The reform in Russia: It will be necessary to wait ... more than three centuries}}</ref><ref>{{cite book |author-link=Eviatar Zerubavel |last=Zerubavel |first=Eviatar |chapter=The Soviet five-day ''Nepreryvka'' |title=The Seven Day Circle |isbn=0029346800 |location=New York |publisher=Free Press |year=1985 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/sevendaycircleth00zeru/page/35 35–43] |chapter-url=https://archive.org/details/sevendaycircleth00zeru/page/35 }}</ref>

From 1929 to 1951, five national holidays were days of rest ({{nowrap|22 January}}, {{nowrap|1–2 May}}, {{nowrap|7–8 November}}). From autumn&nbsp;1929 to summer&nbsp;1931, the remaining 360&nbsp;days of the year were subdivided into 72&nbsp;five&nbsp;day work weeks beginning on {{nowrap|1 January}}. Workers were assigned any one of the five days as their day off, even if their spouse or friends might be assigned a different day off. Peak use of the five&nbsp;day work week occurred on {{nowrap|1 October 1930}} at 72% of industrial workers. From summer&nbsp;1931 until {{nowrap|26 June 1940}}, each Gregorian month was subdivided into five six&nbsp;day work weeks, more-or-less, beginning with the first day of each month. The sixth day of each six&nbsp;day work week was a uniform day of rest. On {{nowrap|1 July 1935}} 74.2% of industrial workers were on non-continuous schedules, mostly six&nbsp;day work weeks, while 25.8% were still on continuous schedules, mostly five&nbsp;day work weeks. The Gregorian calendar with its irregular month lengths and the traditional seven&nbsp;day week were used in the Soviet Union during its entire existence, including 1929–1940; for example, in the masthead of ''[[Pravda]]'', the official Communist newspaper, and in both Soviet calendars displayed here. The traditional names of the seven&nbsp;day week continued to be used, including "Resurrection" (Воскресенье) for Sunday and "Sabbath" (Суббота) for Saturday, despite the government's [[Marxist–Leninist atheism|official]] [[state atheism|atheism]].