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, the book trade, and was in charge of the ideological and political censorship of literature. The Chairmen of Goskomizdat 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 Censorship in the Soviet Union References State Committees of the Soviet Union Censorship in the Soviet Union Publishing, State Committee for 1991 disestablishments in the Soviet Union