State Committee for Publishing

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, book trade and was in charge of the ideological and political censorship of literature.
The chairmen goskomizdat

1978—1982 Boris Stukalin
1982—1986 Boris Pastukhov
1986—1989 Mikhail Nenashev

See also

Glavlit
Eastern Bloc information dissemination
Censorship in the Soviet Union

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