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American Books in Soviet Publishing

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 January 2017

Melville J. Ruggles
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Among the things the Russians like to boast about is publishing. Their presses are now producing about 64,000 books (in over a billion copies), nearly 640 million copies of magazines, and nearly 13 billion copies of newspapers each year. Although they define a book as any publication five pages or more in length and their average newspaper consists of four pages or less, the figures are still impressive. Most of their books do contain far more than five pages, their magazines seem to contain, on the average, as much textual material as those outside Russia, and their newspapers are almost devoid of advertisements and many of the other space fillers that make American newspapers so bulky. What the text of the Soviet newspapers has to do with the day's news is, of course, another matter.

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American Slavic and East European Review , Volume 20 , Issue 3 , October 1961 , pp. 419 - 435
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies 1961

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References

1 Soviet statistics do not usually distinguish between separate works and multiple editions of the same publication. Unless otherwise indicated, the word “titles” when it appears in this article is synonymous with “editions.”

2 See Gorokhoff, Boris I.,Publishing in the U.S.S.R. (Bloomington, Indiana: Indiana University Publications, 1959), pp. 62–67.Google Scholar

3 New York Times Book Review January 11, 1959.

4 Denicke, George,Links with the Past in Soviet Society U.S. Department of State, External Research Staff, Series 3, No. 84, March 21, 1952.Google Scholar

5 Quoted by Hechinger, Fred M. in “Soviet Exchanges,” New York Times, August 28, 1960.Google Scholar

6 Berdiaev, Nikolai A.,The Russian Idea, trans. R. M. French (New York, 1948), p .26.Google Scholar

7 Reported inSaturday Review, October 3, 1959, p . 15.

8 , 1917-1957 (Moscow: , 1957), p. 89.

9 Ibid. pp. 91–93.