State anti-religious publishing

The State Anti-Religious Publishing House (Государственное антирелигиозное издательство) (GAIZ) was a Soviet publishing house which existed from 1932 to 1942.

History
Established in 1932 in Moscow, Russia as part of OGIZ, the government-owned publishing conglomerate, it was governed by the Central Board of the League of Militant Atheists.

Directors

 * A. S. Bogad

Publishing activities
GAIZ released anti-religious literature, including books on atheism, the history of religion, the attitudes of the ВКП(б) about religion, about the origin and history of religion, and the church.

Published works include:
 * E. M. Yaroslavsky "Against religion and the church," Vols. 1–5. (1932–1936) (Против религии и церкви)
 * I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov "Thoughts on Religion" (1936) (Мысли о религии)
 * V. K. Nikolsky "The Origin of Religion" (1940) (Происхождение религии)
 * A. B. Ranovich "Essays on the History of the Early Church" (1941) (Очерки истории раннехристианской церкви)
 * Baruch Spinoza "Tractatus Theologico-Politicus" (1934)
 * P. Holbach "Selected works of anti-religious" (1934)
 * Ernst Haeckel "Riddle" (1937).


 * Newspaper "Bezbozhnik" and "Antireligioznik" magazines.