The red pencil : artists, scholars, and censors in the USSR
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The red pencil : artists, scholars, and censors in the USSR
Unwin Hyman, c1989
Available at 7 libraries
  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
  Akita
  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
  Norway
  United States of America
Note
Bibliography: p. 215-229
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This collection of essays and translated discussions concern censorship in the USSR. The book derives from a conference in 1983 whose participants were primarily exiles and emigrees from the USSR familiar with the Soviet system and the impact of censorship restrictions on the activities of Soviet artists and intellectuals. The definition of censorship and self-censorship was discussed in their areas as were their personal experiences of how they and their colleagues who are still in the Soviet Union cope with censorship intervention and still remain functioning authors, artists and intellectuals. Areas of intellectual and artistic endeavor included science, scholarship, publishing, creative writing, literary criticism, journalism, radio and television, cinema and theatre. What emerged, was a picture of great bureaucratic complexity, aggravated by a diversity of local conditions. Cultural and intellectual life in the USSR is seen to be controlled by a faceless, inconsistent and contradictory censorship.
Table of Contents
- Introduction: Soviet culture of the mid-1980s, Alexander Gershkovich. Part 1 The background: Soviet censorship - a view from the inside, Leonid Vladimirov
- a view from the outside, Maurice Friedberg
- censorship via translation - Soviet treatment of Western political writing, Marianna Tax Choldin. Part 2 Censorship in the scientist's laboratory: coping with the censor - a Soviet scientist remembers, Yuri Yarim-Agaev. Part 3 Censoring artistic imagination: introduction, Maurice Frieberg
- papers by Vassily Aksyonov, Vladimir Voinovich and Andrei Siniavskii. Part 4 The mass media: film censorship in the USSR, Valery Golovskoy
- censoring the journalist, Ilya Suslov
- censoring at the editorial desk, Boris Zaks
- censoring in the theatre, Alexander Gershkovich.
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