The official censorship organ, established in 1922 as the Main Administration for Literary and Publishing Affairs Glavnoe upravlenie po delam literatury i izdatv Glavlit . Although the formal name of that organization has since been changed to the Main Administration for Safeguarding State Secrets in the Press Glavnoe upravlenie po okhrane gosudarstvennykh tain v pechati , the acronym Glavlit continued to be used in the late 1980s.
