Specialist-baiting or Spetseedstvo () 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. See also Industrial Party Trial Great Purge New Economic Policy First five-year plan Second five-year plan References 1930s in the Soviet Union Economic history of the Soviet Union Political repression in the Soviet Union