Book publishing in the Saratov province of 1918–28 as an object of scholarly research

The study contains an overview of publications on the development of publishing houses, printing enterprises and book products of the Saratov Province in the first decade of the Soviet power. The description of scholarly monographs, articles and bibliographic manuals, fully or partially related to the topic, is given. Individual scholars’ contribution to the study of the initial period of the Soviet book publishing in Saratov and the local towns of the Saratov Province is assessed. The place of works on the history of the Saratov bookishness in 1918–28 is shown in a series of similar studies performed in other regions particularly and in the RSFSR generally.