Foreign Literature Committee (), or Kominolit (), was an interdepartmental committee under the

People's Commissariat for Education The People's Commissariat for Education (or Narkompros; , directly translated as the "People's Commissariat for Enlightenment") was the Soviet agency charged with the administration of public education and most other issues related to culture. In 1 ...

for the purchase and distribution of foreign literature in

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. Its chairman as of October 1921 was Otto Yulyevich Schmidt.Lenin: 414. TO THE FOREIGN LITERATURE COMMITTEE
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