Censorship in Soviet Literature, 1917-1991

Censorship in Soviet Literature, 1917-1991
Author: Herman Ermolaev
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 360
Release: 1997
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN:

This study of Soviet censorship during its whole existence emphasizes textual changes made in literary works by official censorship and editorial boards. Covering the works of 80 writers, it groups censorial corrections to show the aims of censorship and its evolution in Communist Party policy.

A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film

A Companion to Soviet Children's Literature and Film
Author: Olga Voronina
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 521
Release: 2019-10-14
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 9004414398

A Companion to Soviet Children’s Literature and Film offers a comprehensive and innovative analysis of Soviet literary and cinematic production for children. Its contributors contextualize and reevaluate Soviet children’s books, films, and animation and explore their contemporary re-appropriation by the Russian government, cultural practitioners, and educators. Celebrating the centennial of Soviet children’s literature and film, the Companion reviews the rich and dramatic history of the canon. It also provides an insight into the close ties between Soviet children’s culture and Avant-Garde aesthetics, investigates early pedagogical experiments of the Soviet state, documents the importance of translation in children’s literature of the 1920-80s, and traces the evolution of heroic, fantastic, historical, and absurdist Soviet narratives for children.

The Birth of the Propaganda State

The Birth of the Propaganda State
Author: Peter Kenez
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 332
Release: 1985-11-29
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780521313988

Peter Kenez's comprehensive study of the Soviet propaganda system, describes how the Bolshevik Party went about reaching the Russian people. Kenez focuses on the experiences of the Russian people. The book is both a major contribution to our understanding of the genius of the Soviet state, and of the nature of propaganda in the twentieth-century.

Censorship and the Limits of the Literary

Censorship and the Limits of the Literary
Author: Nicole Moore
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 271
Release: 2017-02-23
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 150133039X

"Explores the defining relationship of literature to censorship across the globe"--

Censorship

Censorship
Author: Derek Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 6858
Release: 2001-12-01
Genre: Reference
ISBN: 1136798633

First published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Propaganda State in Crisis

Propaganda State in Crisis
Author: David Brandenberger
Publisher: Yale University Press
Total Pages: 373
Release: 2012-01-31
Genre: History
ISBN: 0300155379

The USSR is often regarded as the world's first propaganda state. Particularly under Stalin, politically charged rhetoric and imagery dominated the press, schools, and cultural forums from literature and cinema to the fine arts. Yet party propagandists were repeatedly frustrated in their efforts to promote a coherent sense of "Soviet" identity during the interwar years. This book investigates this failure to mobilize society along communist lines by probing the secrets of the party's ideological establishment and indoctrinational system. An exposé of systemic failure within Stalin's ideological establishment, Propaganda State in Crisis ultimately rewrites the history of Soviet indoctrination and mass mobilization between 1927 and 1941.

Not According to Plan

Not According to Plan
Author: Maria Belodubrovskaya
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Total Pages: 370
Release: 2017-10-15
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 1501713817

In Not According to Plan, Maria Belodubrovskaya reveals the limits on the power of even the most repressive totalitarian regimes to create and control propaganda. Belodubrovskaya's revisionist account of Soviet filmmaking between 1930 and 1953 highlights the extent to which the Soviet film industry remained stubbornly artisanal in its methods, especially in contrast to the more industrial approach of the Hollywood studio system. Not According to Plan shows that even though Josef Stalin recognized cinema as a "mighty instrument of mass agitation and propaganda" and strove to harness the Soviet film industry to serve the state, directors such as Eisenstein, Alexandrov, and Pudovkin had far more creative control than did party-appointed executives and censors.

Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature

Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature
Author: Jonathan Stone
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 313
Release: 2013
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 0810871823

The Historical Dictionary of Russian Literature contains a chronology, an introductory essay, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 100 cross-referenced entries on significant people, themes, critical issues, and the most significant genres...