State anti-religious publishing

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The State Anti-Religious Publishing House (Russian: Государственное антирелигиозное издательство) (GAIZ) was a Soviet publishing house which existed from 1932 to 1942.^[1][2]

Established in 1932 in Moscow, Russia as part of OGIZ,^[a] the government-owned publishing conglomerate, it was governed by the Central Board of the League of Militant Atheists.^[1][2]

• A. S. Bogad^[1]

GAIZ released anti-religious literature, including books on atheism, the history of religion, the attitudes of the ВКП(б)^[b] about religion, about the origin and history of religion, and the church.^[1][2]

Published works include:

• E. M. Yaroslavsky "Against religion and the church," Vols. 1–5. (1932–1936) (Russian: Против религии и церкви)
• I. I. Skvortsov-Stepanov "Thoughts on Religion" (1936) (Russian: Мысли о религии)
• V. K. Nikolsky "The Origin of Religion" (1940) (Russian: Происхождение религии)
• A. B. Ranovich "Essays on the History of the Early Church" (1941) (Russian: 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.^[1][2]

• Novikov, Mikhail Petrovich; Novikova, M.P., eds. (1985). "ГАИЗ (GAIZ)". Atheistic Dictionary (in Russian) (2nd, revised and expanded ed.). Moscow: Политиздат (Politizdat).
• Sheinman, M. M. (1964). ГАИЗ, Государственное антирелигиозное издательство [GAIZ, State Anti-Religious Publishing House]. Словарь атеиста [The Atheist's Dictionary] (in Russian). Издательство политической литературы (Publishing house of political literature).