Goskomtrud (russian: Госкомтруд) was the State Committee for Labour and Social Issues in the

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. It dealt with labour relations and wage issues. A 1991 western (American) review of the institution claimed over-emphasis on wage policy:

The problem in Goskomtrud's case is overcoming not so much its longstanding defense of traditional social policies, as its narrow preoccupation with wage policy to the virtual exclusion of everything else.

The Committee which formally belonged to the

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was created in 1955 by decree of the

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.A short history of Goskomtrud was prepared by Russian archivists through the publication of an official guide to the state archives holding the committee's documents. See S.V. Mironenko (eds), Putevoditel'. Tom 3. ''Fondy Gosudarstvennogo arkhiva Rossiiskoi Federatsii po istorii SSSR'', Moscow, 1997. Throughout this time period, authorities had the name changed four times in the subsequent order: The State Committee for Labour and Wages Issues of the Council of Ministers

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(1955–1976) The State Committee for Labour and Social Issues of the Council of Ministers

(1976–1978) The State Committee of the

for Labour and Social Questions (1978-April 1991) The Ministry of Labour and Social Issues of the

(April 1991-November 1991) Chairmen of Goskomtrud *

Lazar Kaganovich Lazar Moiseyevich Kaganovich, also Kahanovich (russian: Ла́зарь Моисе́евич Кагано́вич, Lázar' Moiséyevich Kaganóvich; – 25 July 1991), was a Soviet politician and administrator, and one of the main associates of ...

(1955–1956) * A.P. Volkov (1955–1976) * V.G. Lomonosov (1976–1983) * Yu. P. Batalin (1983–1985) * I.I. Glabkii (1986–1989) * V.I. Scherbakov (1989–1991)

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