The Foreign Languages Publishing House () was a
Soviet
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state-run foreign-language
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publisher
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of
Russian literature
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,
novels
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,
propaganda
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, and books about the USSR.
Headquartered in
Moscow
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at 21 Zubovsky Boulevard, the publishing house was founded in 1946, and in 1964 was split into two separate publishers,
Progress
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and
Mir
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.
Book series
English-language titles
* Arts Library
* Books for Socialism
* Classics of Russian Literature
* Documents of the First International
* Library of Marxist–Leninist Classics
* Library of Selected Soviet Literature
* Library of Soviet Literature
* Library of Soviet Short Stories
* Men of Russian Science
* Political Education Series
* Soviet Arts Series
* Soviet Children's Library for Tiny Tots
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* Soviet Literature for Young People
French-language titles
* Arts
* Bibliothèque de la littérature soviétique
* Les classiques de la littérature
* Les classiques du marxisme-leninisme
* Les classiques russes
* Critique littéraire
* Littérature pour la jeunesse
* Littérature soviétique pour l'enfance et l'adolescence
* Littérature soviétique pour enfants
* Nouvelles soviétiques
* La science russe et ses hommes
* Série Anticipation
See also
*Foreign Languages Press
Foreign Languages Press is a publishing house located in China.
Based in Beijing, it was founded in 1952 and currently forms part of the China International Publishing Group, which is owned and controlled by the Publicity Department of the Chi ...
, Beijing – similar state-run publisher in China
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* Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang – similar state-run publisher in North Korea
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* Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi – similar state-run publisher in Vietnam
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, now known as Thế Giới Publishers
*Revekka Galperina
Revekka Menasievna Galperina ( Russian: Ревекка Менасьевна Гальперина; August 25, 1894 – November 2, 1974) was a Soviet editor and translator of English and German literature, one of the most prolific translators in the ...
– prolific translator
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for the Soviet publisher
References
Publishing companies of the Soviet Union
Political book publishing companies
State media
1946 establishments in the Soviet Union
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