Khudozhestvennaya Literatura
Soviet and Russian publisher
Khudozhestvennaya Literatura (Russian: Художественная литература) is a publishing house in Saint Petersburg, Russia. The name means "fiction literature" in Russian. It specializes in the publishing of Russian and foreign works of literary fiction in Russia.
History
It was founded as the State Publishing House of Fiction in Moscow, the Soviet Union on October 1, 1930 on the basis of the literary and artistic sector of the State Publishing House and the publishing house "Land and Factory ". In 1934 it was renamed Goslitizdat. In 1937, the disbanded publishing house Academia was merged into it. From 1963 it has been called the Publishing House "Khudozhestvennaya Literatura" (IHL).
Over the years publishing house has issued classic works of world fiction, as well as the most significant works of contemporary foreign authors. Contemporary Russian authors have been included in the publishing program only if they were part of the group of the most famous writers and generally recognized as "classics of Soviet literature." It was considered one of the leading publishing houses in the Soviet Union.
After perestroika the publishing house experienced a serious crisis associated with both general trends in book publishing and subjective factors, which actually continues to the present day.
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