Voenizdat () was a
publishing house
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in
Moscow
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, Russia that was one of the first and largest publishing houses in
USSR
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. The name is a
Russian abbreviation
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for Voennoe Izdatelstvo (), meaning "Military Publishing House".
Voenizdat was established by the
Revolutionary Military Council (Revvoyensoviet) on 25 October 1919. The initial aim was to publish literature for the needs of the
Ministry of Defence. It later published both
fiction
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and
non-fiction
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literature, technical
manuals and
dictionaries
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. The company was absorbed into the joint stock company Red Star in 2009.
References
External links
Worldcat datadase entries
Book publishing companies of Russia
Publishing companies of the Soviet Union
1919 establishments in Russia
Publishing companies established in 1919
Ministry of Defense (Soviet Union)
Companies based in Moscow
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