Gostrudizdat (State Publishing House of Labor Issues)

Гострудиздат (Государственное издательство литературы по вопросам труда)

Gostrudizdat (State Publishing House of Labor Issues) was established around 1924 as Labor Issues Publishing in order to disseminate printed material related to labor. Its office was located in Moscow at 6 Staraia (Old) Square in a building that also housed Moscow's Gorkom (city committee) and Obkom (oblast committee). Dominated by government institutions for decades, Staraia Square at one time contained the offices of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of the USSR.

PP 354: Just so you know, we will honor one person by our labor and another we will sweep away with a steel broom!

PP 705: Do you see those bunches of people waiting?
These are workers waiting for their salary.
Everyone who knows about this should demand
of their plant committee a better way of paying salary.
--V. Mayakovskii

PP 1049: Factory committees: take care of conscientious payment of contributions to the insurance [fund]!

PP 1125: Throw old-fashioned technology on the rubbish heap.
[Let] slogans sound among the working platoons.
From shock brigades to shock workshops, from
shock workshops to shock factories.

Sources & Citations

Terehina, V. N. (2016). Paytnami krasok, zvonom lozungov ...:Knizhno-plakatnoe tvorchestvo Mayakovskogo. Moskva: Nestor-Istoria. (P. 263, Mayakovskii writing for Gostrudizdat publishers)
Goldman, W. Z. (2002). Women at the gates: Gender and industry in Stalin's Russia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (P. 113, Gostrudizdat cited as a Moscow publisher)
Richardson, D. (2001) The Rough Guide to Moscow. London: Rough Guides Ltd. (P. 123, Staraia Square history described)
Colton, T. J. (1995). Moscow: Governing the socialist metropolis. Cambridge, Mass: Belknap Press.