Goskomizdat
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.
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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]