Publishing houses in the Soviet Union

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Publishing houses in the Soviet Union were mainly state publishers. On August 8, 1930, the RSFSR government created a single state publishing monopoly called OGIZ (Union of the State Book and Magazine Publishers) under the Sovnarkom. It continued the work of the earlier Gosizdat. Other Soviet republics soon adopted the same system. In this centralized era, many publishers used the abbreviation "giz" from gosudarstvennoye izdatelstvo, meaning "State Publisher." By January 1, 1930, there were 995 publishers in the RSFSR.