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 (ОГИЗ, Объединение государственных книжно-журнальных издательств, Union of the State Book and Magazine Publishers), subordinated to Sovnarkom. At its core was the former Gosizdat. Other union republics followed the same pattern.
During the era of centralization[when?] the names of the most publishers contained the acronym "гиз" ("giz") standing for "государственное издательство" (gosudarstvennoye izdatelstvo, i.e., "State Publisher", S.P.).
List
Early publishers
As of 1 January 1930, there were 995 publishers in the RSFSR alone.[1]
«Новая Москва» (New Moscow)
«Долой неграмотность» (Down with Illiteracy)
«Прибой»
«Всемирная литература (издательство)» (Vsemirnaya literatura (izdatel'stvo)) (World Literature (Publishing House)) (1919–1924)
Sotsekgiz (Соцэкгиз, Изд-во социально-экономической литературы, Publisher for Social-Economic Literature) -
Renamed as Государственное издательство экономической литературы, State Publishing House of Economic Literature
Uchpedgiz (Учпедгиз) - stands for "State Publishing House of Student and Pedagogical Literature", turned into the Prosveshcheniye Publishing House [ru]
Государственное научно-техническое издательство Наркомтяжпрома (ГНТИ НКТП), later decentralized into the Объединение научно-технических издательств ONTI (ОНТИ) that included Государственное объединённое научно-техническое издательство GONTI (ГОНТИ [ru]):
Fizmatlit [ru] (Izdatelstvo fiziko-matematicheskói i tejnicheskói literatury Физматли́т) (Изда́тельство фи́зико-математи́ческой и техни́ческой литерату́ры) (1990–1998)
Немировский (Nemirovsky), Е. Л. (E. L.); Платова (Platova), М. Л. (M. L.) (1987). Книгоиздание СССР. Цифры и факты. 1917–1987 [Book publishing of the USSR. Figures and facts. 1917–1987] (in Russian). Kniga.
Соколов (Sokolov), В. Д. (V. D.) (2019-03-20). О советской издательской системе [On the Soviet publishing system] (PDF). ВЕСИ (in Russian). No. 2 (#150). Vesi. pp. 50–62. Archived(PDF) from the original on 2021-11-23. Retrieved 2021-12-28.