“They would rather outsource the State Security Authority than publishing”: How the ruling power in the 1950s interfered with a publishing enterprise in Hungary

During the period of high-Stalinism until the Hungarian uprising of 1956, the increasingly tyrannical public policy completely subdued the operation of intellectual areas. Publishing can be conceived of as a tentacle of the literary policies of the period, the principal place where state-control could be exerted.
My paper provides a picture of the inescapable paths for a publisher in this era through the analysis of samples from the operation of a state-owned publishing enterprise: the Literary Fiction Publishers’ and illustrate how József Révai executed ideological control at many phases of the publishing process.

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