This cogently written, highly readable book attempts to answer that latter question, and I personally think that it does so rather successfully. Beginning with the Russian Civil War (1917–1922), censoring film effectively advanced socialist realism, a mode of art production that positively portrays socialism and constituents of socialist nations. For anyone who values the fundamental freedoms which the west was founded on, CENSORED ought to be top-priority reading. Defeats of the Red Army in literature were forbidden, as were depictions of trepidation in Soviet military characters. While restrictions on film still pervaded during the "Khrushchev Thaw", they were significantly fewer than under Stalin.

Also, excisions in the 1941 novel Cement were made by eliminating Gleb's spirited exclamation to English sailors: "Although we're poverty-stricken and are eating people on account of hunger, [still] we have Lenin. The First Department in many agencies and institutions, such as the State Statistical Committee ( Goskomstat), was responsible for assuring that state secrets and other sensitive information only reached authorized hands. The 103 third parties who use cookies on this service do so for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalized ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. These stories from influencers who have been demonized by the left are quite telling showing the gagging of truth and free speech.Certainly, the aforementioned five have all experienced their own share of being tarred and feathered and unjustly gagged. It was the practice of libraries in the Soviet Union to restrict access to back issues of journals and newspapers more than three years old. Emmanuil Kazakevich's 1962 novel, Spring on the Oder, was posthumously injected in 1963 with descriptions of supposed American bigotry, selfishness, and racism, which was not in the novel originally. Enter the umbrageous and those prone to easy outrage, often over the most trivial of perceived offenses, or those who cry "xenophobe!

Works of print such as the press, advertisements, product labels, and books were censored by Glavlit, an agency established on June 6, 1922, ostensibly to safeguard top secret information from foreign entities but in reality to remove material the Soviet authorities did not like. An in depth and personal look at the extreme measures that Silicon Valley giants and social media corporations will take to deplatform and deperson individuals they don't like. This was achieved by state ownership of all production facilities, thus making all those employed in media state employees. Jones appears to be an egomaniac, but Watson and McInnes offer interesting observations, and Loomer seems almost a hapless naif. An in depth and personal look at the extreme measures that Silicon Valley giants and social media corporations will take to deplatform and deperson individuals they don’t like.After the arrest of Lavrentiy Beria in 1953, all subscribers to the second edition (1950–1958) of the Great Soviet Encyclopedia obtained a page to replace the one containing the Lavrentiy Beria article; the new page extended information on George Berkeley. Books which met with official approval and favor, for example, the collected speeches of Leonid Brezhnev, were printed in vast quantities while less favored literary material was published in limited numbers and not distributed widely, or not published at all.