Wikipedia / Progress Publishers
Wikipedia / Progress Publishers
Progress Publishers is a Moscow-based Soviet, and later Russian, publisher founded in 1931. It is still in existence today.
Publishing program
Progress Publishers published books in a variety of languages: Russian, English, and many other European and Asian languages. They issued many scientific books, books on arts, political books (especially on Marxism–Leninism), classic books, children's literature, novels and short fiction, books in source languages for people studying foreign languages, guidebooks and photographic albums.
Progress Publishers joined with International Publishers in New York and the Communist Party of Great Britain's publishing house, Lawrence and Wishart, in London to publish the 50-volume Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels, a project launched in 1975 and completed only in 2004.
Other books published in English by Progress included Marx and Engels on the United States (1979), a compilation drawn from letters, articles, and various other works, and A Short History of the USSR (1984).
One of the common features of all Progress books was their "request to reader" to send an opinion and suggestions on the book. It reads:
Book series
ABC of Social and Political Knowledge
Books About the USSR
Classics of Russian Literature
Current International Problems
Imperialism: Acts, Facts, and Records
Impressions of the USSR
International Communist and Working-Class Movement
V. I. Lenin: Collected Works
Library of Political Knowledge
Library of Soviet Literature
Man Through the Ages
Modern Working-Class Novels Series
On the Track of Discovery
Progress Books about the USSR
Progress Guides to the Social Sciences
Progress Marxist–Leninist Theory
Progress Military Series
Progress Problems of the Third World (also known as: Problems of the Third World)
Progress Russian Classics Series (also known as: Russian Classics Series)
Progress Soviet Authors Library
Russian Readers for Beginners
Scientific Socialism Series
Socialism Today
Soviet Foreign Policy and International Relations
Soviet Literature for Young People
Soviet Military Thought Series
Soviet Novels Series
Soviet Short Stories Series
Stormy Petrel Series
Student's Library
Theories and Critical Studies
War Memoirs
See also
References
Further reading
Vijay Prashad, ed., When the East Was Read: Socialist Culture in the Third World, New Delhi: LeftWord Books, 2019.
External links
Progress Publishers, Moscow - official website
Rossen Djagalov, Progress Publishers: A Short History, at leftword.org