Fighting Words : : Imperial Censorship and the Russian Press, 1804-1906 / / Charles A Ruud.

Censorship took many forms in Imperial Russia. First published in 1982, Fighting Words focuses on the most common form: the governmental system that screened written works before or after publication to determine their acceptability. Charles A. Ruud shows that, despite this system, the nineteenth-ce...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter UTP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2015
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Place / Publishing House:Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2016]
©2009
Year of Publication:2016
Edition:With a New Introduction
Language:English
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Introduction to the 2009 edition
  • Introduction
  • 1. The European pattern and the beginnings of Russian censorship
  • 2. The early administrative system and the rise of mysticism, 1801-17
  • 3. Golitsyn's fall and the decline of mysticism, 1817-25
  • 4. Nicholas I's censorship innovations, 1825-32
  • 5. Censorship and the new journalism, 1832-48
  • 6. A system under siege, 1848-55
  • 7. Confused steps towards reform, 1855-61
  • 8. The dilemmas of liberal censorship, 1862-63
  • 9. The reform of 6 April 1865
  • 10. The first year of the reformed system, 1865-66
  • 11. Control of press freedom: warnings, court cases, and libel laws, 1867-69
  • 12. Censorship repression and the emergence of a 'European' press, 1869-89
  • 13. The last years of the administrative system, 1889-1906
  • 14. Autocracy and the press: the historic conflict
  • Appendices
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index