A catalogue of the books issued by socialist, communist and Marxist presses around the world — from the Left Book Club and the Foreign Languages Publishing House in Moscow to the radical presses still in print today.
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Communist state
Former communist state
Non-Aligned Movement member
Non-Aligned member allied with the United States in the Cold War
Neutral in the Cold War
Western-aligned
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613publishers
905,648titles
6,476authors
157countries
1838–2027span of imprints
Countries are coloured by their alignment in the Cold War. Historical states are shown on today's map: the Soviet Union across its fifteen successor states, Germany divided along the inner German border of 1949–1990 with West Berlin, and Palestine as divided by the UN Partition Plan of 1947, with Jerusalem as an international zone. Members of the Non-Aligned Movement are shown as non-aligned, whatever their later alliances.