he became a special correspondent for the newspaper Izvestia and Pravda, reporting from Sverdlovsk, specialising in war-time industrial topics. After the war, he was director of the Gorky Literary Institute in Moscow. He died in Moscow in 1958. Cement (1925) Gladkov's first major novel after the revolution, titled Cement, became a literary standard for socialist realist writing during the 1930s; in various speeches to the Writers' Congress in the USSR, Gladkov's contemporaries upheld Cement as one of the key exemplars that authors should emulate in Soviet literature. Throughout his lifetime, Gladkov rewrote passages of Cement both to suit contemporary political concerns and to fit with the Socialist Realist aesthetic established in 1932. Published works Towards the Light (1900) After Work (1900) Maksuitka (1901) Before Hard Labour (1903) They Went Off To War (1904) The Inspection (1905) Three In One Hut (1905) The Outcasts (1908) The Abyss (aka The Only Son) (1917) Spring Shoots (1921) The Fiery Steed (1922) Cement (1925) The Old Secret Prison (1926) The Cephalopodous Man (1927) Energy (aka Power) (1932–1938) The Birch Grove (1941) The Scorched Soul (1943) The Vow (1944) Story of My Childhood (1949) The Outlaws (1950) Evil Days (1954) Restless Youth (unfinished) English translations Restless Youth, Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1959. Cement, Northwestern University Press, 1994. References External links Soviet Lit 1883 births 1958 deaths 20th-century male writers 20th-century Russian short story writers People from Penza Oblast People from Petrovsky Uyezd Communist Party of the Soviet Union members Stalin Prize winners Recipients of the Order of Lenin Recipients of the Order of the Red Banner of Labour Novelists from the Russian Empire Soviet novelists Soviet male writers Socialist realism writers Soviet short story writers Internal exiles from the Russian Empire Soviet journalists Male journalists Russian male short story writers Russian Social Democratic Labour Party members Russian revolutionaries