PODOBY CENZÚRY V SÚČASNEJ RUSKEJ LITERATÚRE

• Authors: Kupka Valerij

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Forms of censorship in contemporary Russian literature

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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After centuries of first tsarist and then communist censorship in Russia, censorship was finally prohibited by the Constitution in 1993. The censorship-free 1990s (with all the pros and cons) were followed by a search for new mechanisms of censorship and new forms of prohibition by the authorities to determine a certain control of the state over the mass media and various forms of art, including literature. New legislation (the 2013 law banning propaganda of non-traditional sexual relationships and denial of traditional family values among minors, the 2014 law banning foul language in the arts, the 2016 amendments of anti-extremism law) has become one such mechanism. On the one hand, the laws result in authors’ self-censor-ship; on the other, they provide not only the authorities but also individuals, activist groups or various citizen or religious associations with the opportunity to sue the author or the publisher of a literary work in court.

Keywords

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RUSSIAN LITERATURE; CENSORSHIP

• Publisher: Institute of World Literature, Slovak Academy of Sciences
• Journal: World Literature Studies
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 10
• Issue: 4
• Pages: 38 – 57

Contributors

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Kupka Valerij

• Inštitút rusistiky, Filozofická fakulta, Prešovská univerzita v Prešove, 17. novembra 1, 080 01 Prešov, Slovak Republic