Communist Censorship in the 20th Century: Transylvanian Press and Book Publishing in the Shadow of Censorship

“The control and interdiction of the written word is as old as civilization itself.” This is the idea which opens the article, discussing in a consistent and detailed manner the history of communist censorship in Romania. The paper begins with a sketch of the origins and typology of censorship, followed by the historical and analytical presentation of communist censorship. Following the historical preliminaries, the uses of censorship in totalitarian regimes are discussed, with special reference to the situation of Transylvanian Hungarian culture “in the shadow of censorship”.

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