Fighting Words: Imperial Censorship and the Russian Press, 1804-1906

by Charles A. Ruud

Book Overview

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-century Russian Imperial government came to grant far more extensive legal publishing freedoms than most Westerners realize, adopting a more liberal attitude...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1442610247
• ISBN13: 9781442610248
• Release Date: July 2009
• Publisher: University of Toronto Press
• Length: 330 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"