Formation of political censorship institution in Soviet Byelorussia (1917–1922)

Authors

  • Alexander A. Huzhalouski Belarusian State University, Niezaliežnasci Avenue, 4, 220030, Minsk, Belarus

Keywords:

political censorship, Soviet Byelorussia, Byelorussian Communist Party Central Committee, People’s Commissariat for Public Instruction, Chief Political Educational Office, State Publishing House, Extraordinary Commission, General Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets in the Press, military-censorship department

Abstract

Оn the basis of archival sources, periodicals and contemporary research works, formation of political censoring system in the Soviet Byelorussia is presented in the article. The author gives an opportunity to a reader to examine the departmental period of censorship when political control was carried out simultaneously by the Belarusian Communist Party, Soviet administrative bodies, as well as the Red Army and political police. Combined they constituted censoring system which put under control all the intellectual production in Soviet Belarus – books and periodicals, theatrical plays and musical pieces.

Author Biography

  • Alexander A. Huzhalouski, Belarusian State University, Niezaliežnasci Avenue, 4, 220030, Minsk, Belarus

    doctor of science (history), full professor; professor at the department of ethnology, museology and art history, faculty of history

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Published

2018-07-30

Issue

No. 3 (2018): Journal of the Belarusian State University. History

Section

Belarusian History

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Huzhalouski, A.A. 2018. Formation of political censorship institution in Soviet Byelorussia (1917–1922). Journal of the Belarusian State University. History. 3 (Jul. 2018), 55–63.