Wreckers and counter-revolutionaries were terms used to describe individuals accused of stopping economic progress or outright damaging the state. See Fitzpatrick 1985, pp. 156–157. Fitzpatrick, Sheila (April 1985), "Ordzhonikidze's Takeover of Vesenkha: A Case Study in Soviet Bureaucratic Politics", Soviet Studies, 37 (2): 153–172, doi:10.1080/09668138508411576