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Goskomizdat (
Russian Russian(s) refers to anything related to Russia, including: *Russians (, ''russkiye''), an ethnic group of the East Slavic peoples, primarily living in Russia and neighboring countries *Rossiyane (), Russian language term for all citizens and peo ...
: 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 The Soviet Union,. officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics. (USSR),. was a List of former transcontinental countries#Since 1700, transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991. A flagship communist state, ...
. It had control over publishing houses, printing plants, the book trade, and was in charge of the ideological and political
censorship Censorship is the suppression of speech, public communication, or other information. This may be done on the basis that such material is considered objectionable, harmful, sensitive, or "inconvenient". Censorship can be conducted by governments ...
of literature.


The Chairmen of Goskomizdat

*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 Samizdat (russian: самиздат, lit=self-publishing, links=no) was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the document ...
* Glavlit *
Eastern Bloc information dissemination Eastern Bloc media and propaganda was controlled directly by each country's communist party, which controlled the state media, censorship and propaganda organs. State and party ownership of print, television and radio media served as an important ...
*
Censorship in the Soviet Union Censorship in the Soviet Union was pervasive and strictly enforced. Censorship was performed in two main directions: * State secrets were handled by the General Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press (also known as Glavl ...


References

State Committees of the Soviet Union Censorship in the Soviet Union Publishing, State Committee for 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union {{soviet-stub