Publishing houses in the Soviet Union

Publishing houses in the Soviet Union were a series of publishing enterprises which existed in the Soviet Union.

Centralization

On 8 August 1930, the Sovnarkom of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (RSFSR) established the state publishing monopoly, OGIZ (, , Union of the State Book and Magazine Publishers), subordinated to . At its core was the former . Other union republics followed the same pattern.

During the era of centralization the names of most publishers contained the acronym "" ("giz") standing for "" (', i.e., "State Publisher", S.P.).

• () (State Publishing House)
• «» (Land and Factory)
• «» (The Moscow Worker)
• «» (The Young Guard)
• (Soviet Encyclopedia)
• «» (The Worker for Enlightenment)
• (State Agriculture Publishing House)
• «» (The Atheist)
• «Academia»
• «» (Federation)
• «» (Nedra)
• (Publishing House of the Academy of Sciences of the USSR)
• (Publishing House of the Communist Academy)
• (Publishing House of the NKVD)
• OGIZ
• ' () - stands for "State Publishing House for Children's Literature"
• ' (, Publisher for Social-Economic Literature) -
• Renamed as , State Publishing House of Economic Literature
• ' () - stands for "State Publishing House of Student and Pedagogical Literature", turned into the
• ()
• - (State Publishing House for Literary Works)
• (Lexicographic-Encyclopedic Publishing House)
• (Physical Culture and Tourism)
• () (Publishing House for Party Literature)
• Renamed into ()
• (Fizmatgiz/)
• (Nauka) (= Science)
• (RIA Novosti) - for news
• (Mir (= world) Publishers)
• (Progress Publishers)
• GTTI/ГТТИ
• Spin-offs of
• (), later decentralized into the ONTI () that included GONTI ():
• () aka ( ( / GITTL)
• etc.

Perestroika publishers

• (RKP)
• (Izdatelstvo fiziko-matematicheskói i tejnicheskói literatury ) () (1990–1998)

List of printing houses

• «» (Polygraph Book)
• «» (Polygraph)

References

Further reading