Talk:Progress Publishers

message: Section title by --Ludvikus (talk) 10:19, 11 May 2008 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)

text: 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)
thread_title:  "REQUEST TO READERS" 

message: The article doesn't  inform about censorship and other context.Xx236 (talk) 09:52, 1 December 2010 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  POV 

message: please explain why or why not.  Darkstar1st (talk) 10:43, 14 November 2011 (UTC)
replies: text: 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)
replies: text: And it only took 8 years to answer! El_C 06:03, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
thread_title:  could some this publishers books be used as reliable sources in Wikipedia? 

message: 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)
thread_title:  Current progress Progress Publishers 

message: 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)
replies: text: 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)
thread_title:  Reliability of the historical info. In the book wars and population!