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Table des matières
List of Illustrations
List of Figures and Boxes
Acknowledgements
Note on the Translation
Chapter 1. Introduction
Chapter 2. The Limits: Regulation of Czechoslovak Scholarly Life in Policy Documents
Plate. ‘Four Sheets of Stories’: The Beginnings
Document. Dramatis Personae
Chapter 3. People and Institutions: Surviving in Normalized Academia
Chapter 4. The Work: ‘Driving’ a Manuscript on the Highways and Byways of State-Socialist Academic Publishing
Chapter 5. The Author: Censoring and Authoring under State Socialism
Chapter 6. The Language: Research Topics, Vocabulary, Writing in Code
Chapter 7. The Review: Loss of Memory, the Ghosts of Academia Past in the Present
Plate. ‘Four Sheets of Stories’: The Ends
Chapter 8. Snakes and Ladders: A Theory of State-Socialist Censorship
Chapter 9. Coda
Bibliography
Index
A propos de l'auteur
Libora Oates-Indruchová is Professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz, Austria. She is the co-editor of The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice (2015), along with Hana Havelková.
Résumé
How did writers convey ideas under the politically repressive conditions of state socialism? Did the perennial strategies to outwit the censors foster creativity or did unintentional self-censorship lead to the detriment of thought? Drawing on oral history and primary source material from the Editorial Board of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences and state science policy documents, Libora Oates-Indruchová explores to what extent scholarly publishing in state-socialist Czechoslovakia and Hungary was affected by censorship and how writers responded to intellectual un-freedom.
Divided into four main parts looking at the institutional context of censorship, the full trajectory of a manuscript from idea to publication, the author and their relationship to the text and language, this book provides a fascinating insight into the ambivalent beneficial and detrimental effects of censorship on scholarly work from the Prague Spring of 1968 to the Velvet Revolution of 1989.
Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89 also brings the historical censorship of state-socialism into the present, reflecting on the cultural significance of scholarly publishing in the light of current debates on the neoliberal academia and the future of the humanities.
Préface
An exploration of scholarly publishing and censorship in state-socialist Czechoslovakia and Hungary.
Texte suppl.
A meticulous study of the censorship of academic works in Soviet-era Czech and Hungarian academic publishing. What unfolds is a story partly of the mechanisms regimes generated to keep their ideology unchallenged, and partly of the authors’ strategies to circumvent them. The book ends with chilling suggestions that these battles did not end with the fall of the Berlin Wall, but developed anew in current illiberal regimes.
