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by Mikhail_Edoshin 1246 days ago
I do indeed have those six volumes of 1989. 1,700,000 copies; that is some number. But I doubt Steinbeck was pulled from libraries or wasn't published since 60s. Here's what I can see in 1970-1989 when I browse an online library catalog here:

    1977: volume #183 in the famous "All-world literature" series
    1981: two-volume selected works, Moscow
    1985: selected works, Minsk
    1986: selected works, Kishinev 
    1987: selected works, Moscow
I also see publications in multi-author volumes, a book of Steinbeck letters (1985), Steinbeck in Azerbaijan language (1983), a book about Steinbeck (1984). Maybe there was a cooler period toward him, but a ban is unlikely.