Politizdat

The Soviet Communist Party's central publisher of political literature. It began in 1918 as the Kommunist publishing house, became the political literature department of the State Publishing House in 1919, and was reorganised in 1931 as Partizdat, answering directly to the party's propaganda department. Renamed Gospolitizdat in 1941, it became Politizdat, the publishing house of the CPSU Central Committee, in 1963. It issued the Russian editions of Marx, Engels and Lenin and the party's documents. After the party was banned in 1991 it was turned into the state publisher Respublika.

Years

1918–1991

Location

Moscow, Soviet Union

Name history

1. 1918–1919 Kommunist
2. 1919–1931 Political literature department, State Publishing House
3. 1931–1941 Partizdat (Party Literature Publishing House)
4. 1941–1963 Gospolitizdat (State Political Literature Publishing House)
5. 1963–1991 Politizdat (Political Literature Publishing House of the CPSU Central Committee)
6. 1991–? Respublika — State publisher; no longer a party house

Also known as

Издательство политической литературы · Gospolitizdat · Partizdat · Political Literature Publishing House

Affiliation

Central publishing house of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union

Languages

Russian

Authority records

Wikidata · VIAF · Library of Congress · ISNI

Sources

Russian Wikipedia — Политиздат

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