State Committee for Publishing explained

Russian: '''Goskomizdat''' (ru|Госкомиздат, an abbreviation for Russian: '''Гос'''ударственный '''ком'''итет по делам '''издат'''ельств, полиграфии и книжной торговли СССР, Russian: '''Gos'''udarstvenny '''kom'''itet po delam '''izdat'''elstv, 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

See also

• Samizdat
• Glavlit
• Eastern Bloc information dissemination
• Censorship in the Soviet Union

Notes and References

1. Web site: ATTACKS ON INTELLIGENTSIA: CENSORSHIP . Library of Congress . 31 January 2018.
2. News: Soviet Halts Independent Publishing Cooperative . The New York Times . 3 February 1988 . 31 January 2018 . Keller . Bill .