Censorship in Czech and Hungarian academic publishing, 1969-89 : snakes and ladders / Libora Oates-Indruchová.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Oates-Indruchová, Libora, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Academic freedom--Czechoslovakia--History.

Academic freedom.

Academic freedom--Hungary--History.

Censorship--Czechoslovakia--History.

Censorship.

Censorship--Hungary--History.

Czechoslovakia--Politics and government.

Czechoslovakia.

Hungary--Politics and government--20th century.

Hungary.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (385 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

First edition.

Distribution:

[London, England] : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2020

Place of Publication:

London [England] : Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2020.

Summary:

"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-Indruchov ̀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."-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Illustrations

Colour images

Figure

Boxes

Acknowledgements

Note on the translation

Chapter 1: Introduction

Censorship in the Eastern Bloc

Theories of censorship

The people and the institutions

Imagined conversations: A primary text on censorship in Czech and Hungarian academic publishing under state socialism, 1969-89

The outcome: Snakes and ladders

Organization of the book

Chapter 2: The limits: Regulation of Czechoslovak scholarly

The intellectual community in 1968: An irritant in the eye of normalization

The first year of normalization: In sweeping strides or faltering steps?

Advanced normalization: Reaching further into the rank and file

Four Sheets of Stories: A visual metanarrative. 'The beginnings'

Dramatis personae

Chapter 3: People and institutions: Surviving in normalized academia

I

II

III

Chapter 4: The work: 'Driving' a manuscript on the highways and byways

IV

V

VI

Chapter 5: The author: Censoring and authoring under state socialism

II

Chapter 6: The language: Research topics, vocabulary, writing in code

Chapter 7: The review: Loss of memory, the ghosts of academia past

Four Sheets of Stories: A visual metanarrative. 'The ends'

Chapter 8: Snakes and ladders: A theory of state-socialist censorship

Institutional personnel strategies and personal strategies of professional survival

The highway code for getting published

Acts of censorship, authors and their texts

Politicization of research subjects, ideologized language and text coding

The ghosts of academia past, their spectres haunting the present

Conclusion

Chapter 9: Coda

Bibliography

Archives

References

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781350106673

1350106674

9781350106659

1350106658

OCLC:

1151198211