Talk:Progress Publishers

"REQUEST TO READERS"
Section title by --Ludvikus (talk) 10:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)

One of the common feature of all Progress books were their "REQUEST TO READERS".The request went as follows " Progress Publishers would be glad to have your opinion of this books, its translation and design and any suggestions you may have for future publications. Please send all your comments to 21 Zubovsky Boulevard, Moscow, USSR." The Progress Publishers were specially famous for their "Short History of USSR" and their ABC series (ABC of Party, ABC of Socialism, ABC of Dialectical Materialism etc)--Muaztrek 03:36, 11 July 2006 (UTC)Muaz Jalil Bangladesh


 * I copied this recently added excerpt from the article here and reworded it in the article. Feel free to reword this inf. in a different way from my one, if necessary. Cmapm 04:03, 12 July 2006 (UTC)


 * Muaztrek said this in the article and I copied it from there, removed his signature from the article and slightly reworded it there. Is it clear now, Ludvikus? Cmapm (talk) 01:26, 24 May 2008 (UTC)

I have a copy of a book from them which has the address as 17 Zubovsky Boulevard, Lenin - The State printed in 1984 90.204.195.133 (talk) 14:35, 28 May 2016 (UTC)



I'm interested in seeing this article expanded.
Couldn't we begin by including a list of titles? I've got two of their books in my hands right now:

How Socialism Began: Russia Under Lenin's Leadership 1917-1923 by Y. Ambartsumov; translated from the Russian by David Fidlon, first printing 1977 --  Как Начинался Социализм Россия При Ленине В 1917 - 1923 гг, Е. Амбарцумов, издательство "Молодая Гвардия" 1974 г.

Road to Samarkand by John Summers, published 1986

I would like to create new articles for these books, I suppose, but won't take the time to do so. If I do, I suppose I'll come back here, link them, and hopefully thus give some momentum to a proper fulfillment of this article on Progress Publishers.

I would like to see the article expanded significantly. -- Thanks, Kirez --Kirez 20:38, 20 October 2006 (UTC)


 * I'm holding another -- Karl Marx and Modern Philosophy (1868), by FV Konstantinov. Llamabr (talk) 18:44, 7 April 2011 (UTC)
 * On the back cover of Selected Stories by Konstantin Paustovsky, there is a list of selected 1974 publications of Progress Soviet Authors Library:
 * The Lost Home by A. Avizius
 * Tales of the Mountains and Steppes by Ch. Aitmatov
 * The Cause You Serve by Y. German
 * Andromeda by I. Yefremov
 * The Iron Flood by A. Serafimovich
 * Retracing Lenin's Steps by M. Shaginyan
 * And Quiet Flows the Dawn (vol. I-IV) by M. Sholokhov
 * More titles from that series appear on this Worldcat search.
 * Olegkagan (talk) 20:57, 11 August 2015 (UTC)
 * And Quiet Flows the Dawn? Really? —Psychonaut (talk) 10:23, 12 August 2015 (UTC)
 * Sorry, was in a hurry when I was typing. You know it's And Quiet Flows the Don. Olegkagan (talk) 04:38, 14 August 2015 (UTC)

POV
The article doesn't inform about censorship and other context.Xx236 (talk) 09:52, 1 December 2010 (UTC) "REQUEST TO READERS" - sure they were looking for spies, but noone from abroad was able to influence the texts.Xx236 (talk) 10:02, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
 * If a book was written in the Soviet Union and translated into English, it's going to be subject to the various restrictions Soviet authors faced at the time. That seems reasonably obvious. Also it isn't necessarily true that "no one was abroad was able to influence the texts." People could write in pointing out typos and other translation errors, which could be fixed in reprints. And of course they could write in suggesting subjects they'd like to see Progress Publishers give more attention to (World War II, Soviet foreign policy in the Middle East, the status of Jews in the USSR, etc.) Obviously if someone wrote in saying "communism sucks, please publish books about the greatness of capitalism" or asking for an objective account of Leon Trotsky's life and ideology, they weren't going to get that. But again, this should be reasonably obvious. --Ismail (talk) 06:01, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

could some this publishers books be used as reliable sources in Wikipedia?
please explain why or why not. Darkstar1st (talk) 10:43, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
 * They're reliable as sources of Soviet and pro-Soviet viewpoints. If they are used in that context (e.g. to quote a Soviet author discussing Marxism, or putting forth the USSR's view on a particular issue) there's no problem. But if you were to write that South Korea and the United States were responsible for the Korean War, and used a Progress Publishers book as your source, that would be criticized as an unreliable source. You could cite such a book in the context of "Soviet authors argued that the Korean War..." though. --Ismail (talk) 05:52, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
 * And it only took 8 years to answer! El_C 06:03, 20 October 2019 (UTC)

Current progress Progress Publishers
I see there is a current organisation called Progress Publishers Progress Publishers which seems to be distributing the same titles from an address in Kursk, but it seems to be not notable in any way. --82.38.205.96 (talk) 23:35, 20 February 2018 (UTC)

Reliability of the historical info. In the book wars and population!
Is the book wars and population reliable to use on wikipidia or on a historical learning site even though some earlier parts of the book can't be referenced without the full edition version?And even though the author urlanis doesn't have a biography online that's updated? 174.215.144.64 (talk) 11:25, 26 June 2022 (UTC)
 * A bunch of Western books have cited Urlanis' work, so the answer seems to be yes although it might be a good idea to write "according to Soviet demographer Boris Urlanis" when citing statistics used by him in an article. --Ismail (talk) 21:19, 26 June 2022 (UTC)