The Red Pencil

Marianna Tax Choldin was Director of the Russian and East European Center and the Head of the Slavic and East European Library at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Maurice Friedberg was Senior University Scholar and Head of the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

1. Soviet Culture of the Mid-1980s: A New Thaw? Alexander Gershkovich Part 1. Soviet Censorship 2. Soviet Censorship: A View from the Inside Leonid Vladimirov 3. Soviet Censorship: A View from the Outside Maurice Friedberg 4. Censorship Via Translation: Soviet Treatment of Western Political Writing Marianna Tax Choldin. Soviet Censorship: Discussion. Part 2. The Scientist’s Laboratory 5. Coping with the Censor: A Soviet Scientist Remembers Yuri Yarim-Agaev. The Scientist’s Laboratory: Discussion. Part 3. Literature and Intellectual Life 6. Censoring Artistic Imagination Maurice Friedberg, Vassily Aksyonov, Vladimir Voinovich and Andrei Siniavsky. Literature and Intellectual Life: Discussion. Part 4. The Mass Media 7. Film Censorship in the USSR Valery Golovskoy 8. Censoring the Journalist Ilya Suslov 9. Censorship at the Editorial Desk Boris Zaks 10. Censorship in the Theatre Alexander Gershkovich. The Mass Media: Discussion.