Information Dissemination in Soviet Russia

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This paper examines how state control over the dissemination of information in Soviet Russia was almost total, at least until the mid-1980s, and not only because of literal state control. It looks at how, before Gorbachev, when glasnost, or openness, began, journalists were educated in Marxist-Leninist theories and the current Communist Party policies and how, even after the loosening of government censorship in the 1980s, there were more pressures than just the Soviet censor keeping some of the news from being printed.

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"In 1987, a Pravda editor told the ASNE delegation, "We once did not write about such things as crime or earthquakes, but now we have no taboos." Perhaps he should more accurately have said that they no longer had those official taboos. In Samarkand that year, the ASNE delegation found the local newspaper Lenin's Path under fire for publishing an article about suicide among young Muslim women. The editor, Boris Shegolikhin, said that while the story had not been censored "after all, by then even Pravda was writing about the sale of stale bread in city bakeries and the pitiful performance of the city's streetcars" but it had been criticized by readers who were displeased."

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