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The Red Pencil : Artists, Scholars, and Censors in the USSR - Marianna Tax Choldin

The Red Pencil

Artists, Scholars, and Censors in the USSR

By: Marianna Tax Choldin, Maurice Friedberg

Paperback | 19 January 2026 | Edition Number 1

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The Red Pencil (1989) examines the many ways in which Soviet censorship interfered in the creative process â" in the words of those who experienced it first hand. It helps to identify the ways in which Soviet artistic and intellectual production was shaped by the practices of Soviet censorship. The book goes beyond the simple recounting of banned books and taboo subjects to examine the more subtle issue of how Soviet writers attempted to strike a balance between accommodating the demands of government censorship while retaining for themselves a modicum of unfettered expression and intellectual integrity. Most of the contributing authors were active as writers, critics, editors, film and theatre specialists, or scientists prior to their departure from the Soviet Union in the 1970s.

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