State Committee for Publishing

Goskomizdat (Russian: 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.

It had control over publishing houses, printing plants, book trade and was in charge of the ideological and political censorship of literature.

The chairmen goskomizdat

• 1978–1982 Boris Stukalin
• 1982–1986 Boris Pastukhov
• 1986–1989 Mikhail Nenashev

See also

• Glavlit
• Eastern Bloc information dissemination
• Censorship in the Soviet Union

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