Talk:Publishing houses in the Soviet Union

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Highly incomprehensive and POV article[edit]

The article fails to cover both the early period (since January 11 1918) and the post-WWII period. Limits for "early period", "centralisation" and "perestroika" are not mentioned, and the intermediate period between the latter two is not presented. Just one small detail ОГИЗ was eliminated in 1949 and its functions transferred to Главполиграфиздат. Most of the publishing companies mentioned were renamed in the 1950s and the 1960s. Etc.

Also, it's very naive to consider "censorship and control" the only feature of publishing houses in the Soviet Union. But even they were much different in different times - this is not reflected in the article too. Cmapm 11:02, 2 September 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Instead of kicking my poor ass, how about improvements, even the minimal ones you mentioned? A smart-ass attitude is hardly helpful in writing wikipedia, "where everyone can edit". We are not nominating this text fo "featured article", do we? I have found a piece of info missing in wikipedia. I don't pretent to be expert here, I did what I could. How about a little cooperation? `'Míkka

--(unsigned) 2007-10-16T04:37:21‎ Altenmann

I agree, the article is in a bad shape, but we badly need such a list in order to help correlate and distinguish all these "strange sounding" publishers in all their name variants, as abbreviations, in two alphabets (Latin and Cyrillic) and several common transliterations, so that we can use this page as a landing page for redirects from article names for which we don't have separate articles. Those redirects catch searches and are frequently linked to from Russian references used in articles. Over time, this list will hopefully become more complete (and referenced), we can add inter-wiki links to the corresponding articles (or redirects) about specific publishers in the Russian Wikipedia (because they have a lot more information on this), and in the very long run we can create coherent articles about those publishers here as well.

Puzzle piece by puzzle piece, put together by many contributors who just happen to run into small bits of knowledge distributed all over the place and not yet included here - lacking an expert on Soviet publishers, this is how to build the web and develop articles in Wikipedia, eventually even good ones.

Pointing out the weak spots is important as well (but should be obvious in this case), ranting is not. Those, who do know more about the various publishers, should better spend some time to incorporate that info here. --Matthiaspaul (talk) 23:00, 15 January 2022 (UTC)[reply]