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Soviet Book Shortage Drives Black Market For Literature
In Moscow the public faces a book shortage despite a massive publishing industry. Print runs are too small and biased toward ideological works, with classics scarce and some Soviet authors issued in tiny editions or abroad. The state controls publishing and restricts politically risky titles.
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Moscow
Soviet Union
Writer's Union
Literary Gazette
House of Books
Europe
Tolstoi
Helsinki
Finland
Berkeley
Calif
Communist Party
Tashkent
Wayne Reid
Pushkin
Mikhail Bulgakov
Osip Mandelshtam
New York
Copenhagen
Solzhenitsyn
Pasternak