State Committee for Publishing

Agency in charge of literature releases and trade in the Soviet Union

Goskomizdat (Russian: Госкомиздат, an abbreviation for Государственный комитет по делам издательств, полиграфии и книжной торговли СССР, Gosudarstvenny komitet po delam izdatelstv, poligrafii i knizhnoy torgovli SSSR) was the State Committee for Publishing in the Soviet Union.

It had control over publishing houses, printing plants, the book trade, and was in charge of the ideological and political censorship of literature.^[1]^[2]

Goskomizdat chairmen

1949–1953 – Leonid Pavlovich Grachev
1963–1965 – Pavel Konstantinovich Romanov
1965–1970 – Nikolai Alexandrovich Mikhailov
1970–1982 – Boris Ivanovich Stukalin
1982–1986 – Boris Nikolaevich Pastukhov
1986–1989 – Mikhail Fedorovich Nenashev
1989–1990 – Nikolay Ivanovich Efimov
1990–1991 – Mikhail Fedorovich Nenashev

References

^ "ATTACKS ON INTELLIGENTSIA: CENSORSHIP". Library of Congress. Retrieved 31 January 2018.
^ Keller, Bill (3 February 1988). "Soviet Halts Independent Publishing Cooperative". The New York Times. Retrieved 31 January 2018.