(, an abbreviation for , , "State Committee for Publishing, Printing, and Book Trade of the USSR") was the State Committee for Publishing in the Soviet Union.
It had control over publishing houses, printing plants, the book trade, and was in charge of the ideological and political censorship of literature.
Goskomizdat chairmen 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 Glavlit Eastern Bloc information dissemination Eastern Bloc media and propaganda Propaganda in the Soviet Union Censorship in the Soviet Union
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