State Committee for Publishing

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.