Moscow had big literary news: Soviet citizens are going to get more to read this year than ever before. If the state-owned presses stay on schedule, 1947 will be the biggest year in Russian publishing history: 23,000 titles, totaling 430,000,000 copies, in the Soviet Union's 100-odd languages and dialects. Every book is fit for Russian eyes and minds: Glavlit, the Government bureau in charge of such things, had seen to that by hand-picking each title.
No publishing risks are involved in Glavlit's grandiose program. Well practiced in mind conditioning, the Government has given top paper priorities to books and newspapers, determines how...
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