Censorship in Czech and Hungarian Academic Publishing, 1969-89

Libora Oates-Indruchová is Professor of Sociology of Gender at the University of Graz, Austria. She is the co-editor of The Politics of Gender Culture under State Socialism: An Expropriated Voice (2015), along with Hana Havelková.

• List of IllustrationsList of Figures and BoxesAcknowledgementsNote on the TranslationChapter 1. IntroductionChapter 2. The Limits: Regulation of Czechoslovak Scholarly Life in Policy DocumentsPlate. ‘Four Sheets of Stories’: The BeginningsDocument. Dramatis PersonaeChapter 3. People and Institutions: Surviving in Normalized Academia Chapter 4. The Work: ‘Driving’ a Manuscript on the Highways and Byways of State-Socialist Academic PublishingChapter 5. The Author: Censoring and Authoring under State SocialismChapter 6. The Language: Research Topics, Vocabulary, Writing in CodeChapter 7. The Review: Loss of Memory, the Ghosts of Academia Past in the PresentPlate. ‘Four Sheets of Stories’: The EndsChapter 8. Snakes and Ladders: A Theory of State-Socialist CensorshipChapter 9. CodaBibliography Index

[T]he book unquestionably unpacks thoughtfully several aspects of censorship under state socialism to offer a balanced appraisal of how academic authors navigated the era’s constraints, with insights into more recent worlds of academic publishing. It will enrich future work in this area.