Progress Publishers was a Moscow

Moscow

Moscow is the capital, the most populous city, and the most populous federal subject of Russia. The city is a major political, economic, cultural, scientific, religious, financial, educational, and transportation centre of Russia and the continent...

-based Soviet

Soviet Union

The Soviet Union , officially the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics , was a constitutionally socialist state that existed in Eurasia between 1922 and 1991....

 publisher founded in 1931.

It was noted for its English-language editions of books on Marxism-Leninism

Marxism-Leninism

Marxism–Leninism is a communist ideology, officially based upon the theories of Marxism and Vladimir Lenin, that promotes the development and creation of a international communist society through the leadership of a vanguard party over a revolutionary socialist state that represents a dictatorship...

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Progress Publishers were particularly also known for their "Short History of USSR" and ABC series (ABC of Party

Communist party

A political party described as a Communist party includes those that advocate the application of the social principles of communism through a communist form of government...

, ABC of Socialism

Socialism

Socialism is an economic system characterized by social ownership of the means of production and cooperative management of the economy; or a political philosophy advocating such a system. "Social ownership" may refer to any one of, or a combination of, the following: cooperative enterprises,...

, ABC of Dialectical Materialism

Dialectical materialism

Dialectical materialism is a strand of Marxism synthesizing Hegel's dialectics. The idea was originally invented by Moses Hess and it was later developed by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels...

, etc.). They also published many scientific books, books on arts, political books, classic books, children's literature

Children's literature

Children's literature is for readers and listeners up to about age twelve; it is often defined in four different ways: books written by children, books written for children, books chosen by children, or books chosen for children. It is often illustrated. The term is used in senses which sometimes...

, novels and short fiction, books in source languages for people studying foreign languages, guidebook

GUIdebook

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s and photographic albums.

One of the common features of all Progress books was their "request to reader" to send an opinion and suggestions on the book. It reads: