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    Censorship in the Soviet Union was pervasive and strictly enforced. Censorship was performed in two main directions: State secrets were handled by the...
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    Censorship of images was widespread in the Soviet Union. Visual censorship was exploited in a political context, particularly during the political purges...
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  • Many fields of scientific research in the Soviet Union were banned or suppressed with various justifications. All humanities and social sciences were...
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    internationalism, the goals of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, and the party itself. The main Soviet censorship body, Glavlit, was employed not...
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    Television in the Soviet Union was owned, controlled and censored by the state. The body governing television in the era of the Soviet Union was the Gosteleradio...
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    dissemination Radio jamming Censorship in the Soviet Union Propaganda in the Soviet Union Radio Yerevan jokes Media of the Soviet Union Rodica Mahu, Radio Moldova...
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    Human rights in the Soviet Union were severely limited. The Soviet Union was a totalitarian state from 1927 until 1953 and a one-party state until 1990...
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    The culture of the Soviet Union passed through several stages during the country's 69-year existence. It was contributed to by people of various nationalities...
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    Union Television in the Soviet Union Printed media in the Soviet Union Censorship in the Soviet Union Propaganda in the Soviet Union Media in Russia v t e...
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    realism is the official cultural doctrine of the Soviet Union that mandated an idealized representation of life under socialism in literature and the visual...
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    Samizdat (category Censorship in the Soviet Union)
    This was a grassroots practice used to evade official Soviet censorship. Etymologically, the word samizdat derives from sam (сам 'self, by oneself')...
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    extensive program of state-imposed censorship. The main organ for official censorship in the Soviet Union was the Chief Agency for Protection of Military...
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    Ribs (recordings) (category Censorship in the Soviet Union)
    through the 1950s and 1960s, ribs were a black market method of smuggling in and distributing music that was banned from broadcast in the Soviet Union. Banned...
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    Printed media in the Soviet Union, i.e., newspapers, magazines and journals, were under strict control of the CPSU and the Soviet state. The desire to disseminate...
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  • Broadcasting in the Soviet Union was owned by the Soviet state, and was under its tight control and Soviet censorship. Through the development of satellites...
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    СССР) was the official censorship and state secret protection organ in the Soviet Union. The censorship agency was established in 1922 under the name "Main...
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  • Soviet historiography is the methodology of history studies by historians in the Soviet Union (USSR). In the USSR, the study of history was marked by restrictions...
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  • Censorship by country collects information on censorship, Internet censorship, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, and human rights by country and...
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  • Anti-Soviet agitation and propaganda (ASA) (Russian: антисове́тская агита́ция и пропага́нда (АСА)) was a criminal offence in the Soviet Union. Initially...
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  • State Committee for Publishing (category Censorship in the Soviet Union)
    portal Soviet Union portal Samizdat Glavlit Eastern Bloc information dissemination Censorship in the Soviet Union "ATTACKS ON INTELLIGENTSIA: CENSORSHIP"....
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    Citizen Kane (category Censorship in the Soviet Union)
    Kane". The Tatler. pp. 229–231, reprinted in Around Cinemas (1946) Home & Van Thal Ltd. Davies, Russell (1993). The Kenneth Williams Diaries. Harper Collins...
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    Elena Sergeevna Bulgakova (category Censorship in the Soviet Union)
    her life, that of Mikhail Bulgakov, and the Soviet artistic world. Bulgakova supported him against censorship and press campaigns orchestrated by Stalin...
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    The music of the Soviet Union varied in many genres and epochs. The majority of it was considered to be part of the Russian culture, but other national...
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  • Soviet-Armenian director Sergei Parajanov and Georgian actor Dodo Abashidze. Sergei Parajanov's first film after 15 years of censorship in the Soviet...
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    The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922...
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    Religion in the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was dominated by the fact that it became the first state to have as one objective of its official...
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  • Sophie's Choice (novel) (category Book censorship in the Soviet Union)
    by the Goskomizdat agency as part of censorship in the Soviet Union, and was likewise banned by the censors in the Communist People's Republic of Poland...
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    Declaration № 142-Н of the Soviet of the Republics of the Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union. It also brought an end to the Soviet Union's federal government...
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    Like the dissident writers of the future, Zamyatin and Bulgakov had serious problems with publishing their books due to censorship in the Soviet Union. Since...
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    Andrei Sinyavsky (category Amnesty International prisoners of conscience held by the Soviet Union)
    works critical of Soviet society under the pseudonym Abram Tertz (Абрам Терц) published in the West to avoid censorship in the Soviet Union. Sinyavsky and...
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