Word: trud
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...system overachieves in one notable undertaking: paperwork. Soviet Economist Alexei Rumyantsev, writing in the official trade-union newspaper Trud, estimated in 1983 that Soviet bureaucrats generated 800 billion documents a year. In addition, Rumyantsev noted that factories and offices were constantly being disrupted by inspections: he told of a machine-tool factory that had been visited 145 times in a single year...
...line with Andropov's determination to impose better labor discipline, the daily Sovietskaya Rossiya announced a new drive to round up alcoholics, tramps, drug addicts and other "social parasites" for treatment in special camps, to be followed by "corrective labor." The newspaper Trud (Labor) said that industrial managers would be held responsible for reporting alcoholics to the authorities...
Dunayev, like most senior Soviet journalists, did not receive any formal academic training in his craft. He graduated from Moscow's college-level Institute of International Relations, and began his career at Trud, the daily newspaper of the Central Council of Trade Unions. In eleven years there, he moved up from copy boy to columnist. After two years as a radio commentator in Moscow, Dunayev was sent to London for five years as a broadcast correspondent. He returned home in 1972 to assume his present position with Moscow television...