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
Soviet Russia
The Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic (Russian SFSR or RSFSR), previously known as the Russian Socialist Federative Soviet Republic and the Russian Soviet Republic, and unofficially as Soviet Russia,Declaration of Rights of the labo ...
. Its chairman as of October 1921 was
Otto Yulyevich Schmidt.
Lenin: 414. TO THE FOREIGN LITERATURE COMMITTEE
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References
People's Commissariat for Education
Soviet literature
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