Where Private Is Public: Reading Practices in Socialist Hungary

Authors

  • Veronika Schandl

Keywords:

sociology of reading, literature and censorship, socialism, publishing industry, Hungary

Abstract

The essay concerns itself with the publishing systems of Kádár-regime Socialist Hungary, and argues that the editorial systems which were the substitutes for a censorship office enabled the system to work because they allowed the pre-reading of the publishable materials on several levels.

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Published

2017-10-16

Issue

Vol. 34 No. 2 (2011): “Who Reads?”: Perspectives on Reading Research

Section

Articles