The Red Pencil: Artists, Scholars, and Censors in the USSR

Abstract

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.