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Voenizdat (Military Publishers)

Воениздат

Voenizdat (Military Publishers) was the Military Publishing House of the Ministry of Defense of the USSR (voennoe izdatelstvo). Established in Moscow in 1919; Voenizdat published literature for the defense industry such as technical manuals and dictionaries. It also published posters, pamphlets and fiction and non-fiction literature frequently containing military themes. Voenizdat's predecessor was Litizdat, the publishing arm of the Revolutionary Military Soviet.

Fuentes

Pisch, A. (2016). The personality cult of Stalin in Soviet posters, 1929-1953: Archetypes, inventions and fabrications. Canberra: ANU Press. (P. 100, Litizdat cited).
Hooker, M. T. (1996). The military uses of literature: Fiction and the Armed Forces in the Soviet Union. Westport, CT: Praeger.
Kalmykov, Sergey Pavlovich. Voyenizdat: Istoriya I Sovremennost' (03 Sept. 2011) Voyennaya Letopis' Otechestva
Soviet Military Encyclopedia (1976)