K činnosti Slovenského ústredia knižnej kultúry s dôrazom na obdobie neskorého socializmu
On the activities of the Slovak Centre for Book Culture, with an emphasis on the late socialist period

Summary/Abstract: The term “production-economic unit” referred in socialist Czechoslovakia to an intermediate level in the centrally planned management of the economy. The Generálne riaditeľstvo výrobno-hospodárskej jednotky Slovenské ústredie knižnej kultúry (General Directorate of the Slovak Centre for Book Culture) managed the book-trade enterprise, coordinated and approved the publishing plans of all book publishers, and oversaw the distribution of financial resources among the individual affiliated enterprises. Drawing on archival research conducted at the Slovak National Archives in Bratislava (the Slovak Centre for Book Culture collection, General Directorate in Bratislava, 1963–1990), the study analyses selected activities and the internal structure of this organisation in the second half of the 1980s. The annual reports of the Slovak Centre for Book Culture demonstrate that its key agenda was to implement the ideological and political requirements of central government and Party bodies and reconcile them with the economic possibilities of socialist book production and distribution. The study also explicates this agenda through contemporary theoretical models of literary and, more specifically, book-publishing communication (František Miko–Anton Popovič, Radosław Cybulski).

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