Keyword – Soviet-type censorship

Kiss, Ágnes:

Coordination and control in the Soviet-type censorship systems

The censorship of the state-socialist regimes was based on vaguely formulated rules whose interpretation depended on the permanently changing ‘political line’ of the Communist Party. Through some examples of the Romanian censorship system, this study looks into fine-tuned organizational mechanisms, personal relationships and everyday practices that helped the clarification of the censorship rules and their coherent application, i.e., the formal and informal coordination and control mechanisms leading to an efficient functioning of the Soviet-type censorship system.

Keywords: control, coordination, effectiveness, formal mechanisms, informal mechanisms, Soviet-type censorship