Foreign Languages Publishing House (Soviet Union)

Foreign Languages Publishing House

Founded	1946
Defunct	1963
Successor	Progress Publishers, Mir Publishers
Country of origin	Soviet Union
Headquarters location	21 Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow

The Foreign Languages Publishing House (Russian: Издательство иностранной литературы) was a Soviet state-run foreign-language publisher of Russian literature, novels, propaganda, and books about the USSR.^[1] Headquartered in Moscow at 21 Zubovsky Boulevard, the publishing house was founded in 1946, and in 1964 was split into two separate publishers, Progress and Mir.

Book series

English-language titles

• Arts Library
• Books for Socialism
• Classics of Russian Literature^[2]
• Documents of the First International
• Library of Marxist–Leninist Classics
• Library of Selected Soviet Literature
• Library of Soviet Literature
• Library of Soviet Short Stories
• Men of Russian Science
• Outline History of the USSR
• Political Education Series
• Soviet Arts Series
• Soviet Children's Library for Tiny Tots^[3]
• Soviet Literature for Young People

French-language titles

• Arts
• Bibliothèque de la littérature soviétique
• Les classiques de la littérature
• Les classiques du marxisme-leninisme
• Les classiques russes
• Critique littéraire
• Littérature pour la jeunesse
• Littérature soviétique pour l'enfance et l'adolescence
• Littérature soviétique pour enfants
• Nouvelles soviétiques
• La science russe et ses hommes
• Série Anticipation

See also

• Foreign Languages Press, Beijing – similar state-run publisher in China
• Foreign Languages Publishing House, Pyongyang – similar state-run publisher in North Korea
• Foreign Languages Publishing House, Hanoi – similar state-run publisher in Vietnam, now known as Thế Giới Publishers
• Revekka Galperina – prolific translator for the Soviet publisher

References

1. "Moscow : Foreign Languages Publishing House". University of North Carolina at Asheville. Archived from the original on 5 July 2008. Retrieved 29 October 2013.
2. "Classics of Russian Literature". seriesofseries.OWU.edu. 30 June 2017. Retrieved 3 February 2018.
3. "Soviet Children's Library for Tiny Tots (Foreign Languages Publishing House) - Book Series List". publishinghistory.com. Retrieved 21 May 2018.