Draft:Chekhov Publishing House

The Chekhov Publishing House (Изда́тельство и́мени Че́хова), named after Anton Chekhov, was a Russian-language publishing company based in the United States. Active from 1952 to 1956, it released over one hundred and fifty titles, many of which were prohibited in the Soviet Union.

Background
The Chekhov Publishing House was founded by the East European Fund, a foundation created and funded by the Ford Foundation to assist recent exiles from the Soviet Union.

The publishing house focused on Tamizdat, which refers to literature secretly smuggled out of the Soviet Union for publication abroad (see: Samizdat). It aimed to support the Russian émigrés community by providing them with a platform that offers self-expression and creative freedom to write about personal experiences and struggles, or to publish new literature, especially works banned in the Soviet Union. Additionally, it sought to preserve Russian cultural heritage, dating back to pre-revolutionary Russia, while also introducing Russian émigrés to Western civilization to bridge the gap between both cultures.

Publications
Noteworthy publications included works by:


 * Vladimir Nabokov
 * Aleksey Remizov
 * Boris Zaytsev
 * Georgy Fedotov
 * Marina Tsvetaeva
 * Mikhail Zoshchenko
 * Osip Mandelstam
 * Yevgeny Zamyatin

Zamyatin's We, a novel that was banned in the Soviet Union, is widely regarded as the prototype of the dystopian novel, notably inspiring George Orwell's 1984.