State politics of mass library network centralization in USSR 1974-1982

It's first detail investigated the history of soviet library network general condition and development in late L. I. Brezhnev's period. We studied the main guidance documents in library area. We shows it's positive aspects and disadvantages. Main factors that prevent state library policy in 1974-1982 are analyzed. We note lack of objective conditions for unified mass library system organization in the country. We are given the summery assessment of librarianship state in USSR at the beginning of the 1980th. In article used archive and other little-known sources.