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State Publishing. The number of state publishing houses in the Soviet Union runs into the hundreds. The most important group of them is known as OGIZ- -initials for Obiedineniye Gosudarstvennikh Izdatelstv, meaning Amalgamated State Publishing Houses. It has seven member houses in Moscow and Leningrad and one in each of the 16 Soviet Republics...
...OGIZ is a tremendous, self-contained industry. It publishes fiction, poetry, translations, pamphlets, broadsides and books on politics, music, art, science and agriculture. It controls the production of prints and colors. It runs 14 print shops like "The Model Printery" in Moscow, which hires 2.000 workers, and "The Printing House" in Leningrad, which printed the equivalent of 24 billion pages a year before the war. It has more than 3.000 book shops, stands and rare-book stores throughout Russia. It is an influence over writers, since no book may be published without the signature of the editor of a state...
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