Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1935, from name of hard-working Soviet coal miner Aleksei Grigorevich Stakhanov (1906-1977), in reference to an efficiency system in which workers increase their piecework production and are rewarded with bonuses and privileges. Soviet authorities publicized his prodigious output as part of a campaign to increase productivity.
Usage examples of "stakhanovite".
But the twist-box used a simple Stakhanovite three-variable chaotic feedback loop, rather than a ideologically designed process, as was characteristic of the new philtres.
Somehow it makes you think of all the nicest things that ever happened to you, and you long to grow up quickly, to be strong and brave and do all sorts of heroic deeds like penetrating into the heart of the taiga forests, or climbing up to the top of high mountains no one has climbed before, or flying an aeroplane in the blue sky, or burrowing deep underground for iron ore and coal, or building canals to water the deserts, or planting forests, or doing Stakhanovite work in a factory, or inventing some wonderful machines so that Mum and Dad would be proud of you,, and Olga Nikolayevna too.
In other departments of Washington insiderdom, it was also noticed that Kissinger was becoming a Stakhanovite committeeman.
So long as we labor like Stakhanovites, over and above the norm, that victory will be ours.
Stakhanovites or would-be Stakhanovites and throw them among the ice blocks of the Vistula.
For all you know, some of the boys might grow up to be famous inventors, or Stakhanovites, or flyers, or scientists, and the old file of the class newspaper will show how they studied in school.