Glavlit Instruction Manual: List of Prohibited Content (Cover Page)
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Title
Glavlit Instruction Manual: List of Prohibited Content (Cover Page)
Subject
State Censorship, Publishing Control, Soviet Media Policy
Description
The Glavlit (Main Directorate for Literary and Publishing Affairs) manual governed censorship criteria in Soviet publishing. This cover page from a 1976 edition demonstrates the bureaucratic apparatus behind information suppression, detailing categories of restricted topics from political satire to religious discussion.
Creator
Glavlit (Main Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets)
Source
Declassified Soviet publishing archive
Publisher
Soviet State Publishing Bureau (confidential circulation)
Date
1976
Contributor
Recovered and digitized by Guanxiao Chen, 2025
Rights
Fair use for scholarly commentary and historical analysis
Relation
Contrasts with samizdat materials produced outside official publishing systems
Format
JPEG (Scanned Document); 21 x 29.7 cm, Russian language
Language
Russian
Type
Text
Identifier
UT.Samizdat.006
Coverage
USSR, 1970s
Citation
Glavlit (Main Directorate for the Protection of State Secrets)
, “Glavlit Instruction Manual: List of Prohibited Content (Cover Page),” Omeka, accessed February 5, 2026, https://omeka.ischool.utoronto.ca/items/show/547.