Samantha Sherry is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the department of Medieval and Modern Languages, the University of Oxford

Discourses of Regulation and Resistance is a nuanced examination of the censorship of translated literature in Soviet Russia. Based on archival research, Sherry’s study reveals Soviet censorship to be shifting, unevenly applied, and often internalized. The book makes a real contribution to the study of translation in totalitarian states.

• Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Theorising Censorship: Russian and Western approaches; Censorship modes and practices; Structure of the book; Part I: Context; Chapter 1: Translation and translators in the Soviet Union; The development of translation in Soviet culture; Soviet translation theory; The official image of translators; Translators as apolitical intellectuals; Chapter 2: The Soviet censorship system; Censorship and the control of foreign literature; The spetskhran; Glavlit’s interventions in the text; Publishers’ role in the control of foreign literature; Editorial censorship: the link between state and author; Translators as censors; Part II: Case Studies; Chapter 3: Censorship in the Stalin period: Internatsional’naia literatura; A fragile cosmopolitanism; The rhetoric of Soviet superiority; Political and ideological taboo; Fascism and anti-fascism; The war: a sudden reversal; Puritanical censorship; ‘Sovietising’ foreign culture; Chapter 4: Censorship in the Khrushchev Era: Inostrannaia literatura; Choosing texts: external interference and internal debates; The cold war; Puritanical censorship: euphemism and structural censorship; Trimming foreign texts; Chapter 5: Resisting Censorship; Aesopian translation; Working outside the system: samizdat translations; Resisting censorship: a complex blend of practices; Conclusion; Bibliography

Samantha Sherry is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the department of Medieval and Modern Languages, the University of Oxford

Discourses of Regulation and Resistance is a nuanced examination of the censorship of translated literature in Soviet Russia. Based on archival research, Sherry’s study reveals Soviet censorship to be shifting, unevenly applied, and often internalized. The book makes a real contribution to the study of translation in totalitarian states.

• Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Theorising Censorship: Russian and Western approaches; Censorship modes and practices; Structure of the book; Part I: Context; Chapter 1: Translation and translators in the Soviet Union; The development of translation in Soviet culture; Soviet translation theory; The official image of translators; Translators as apolitical intellectuals; Chapter 2: The Soviet censorship system; Censorship and the control of foreign literature; The spetskhran; Glavlit’s interventions in the text; Publishers’ role in the control of foreign literature; Editorial censorship: the link between state and author; Translators as censors; Part II: Case Studies; Chapter 3: Censorship in the Stalin period: Internatsional’naia literatura; A fragile cosmopolitanism; The rhetoric of Soviet superiority; Political and ideological taboo; Fascism and anti-fascism; The war: a sudden reversal; Puritanical censorship; ‘Sovietising’ foreign culture; Chapter 4: Censorship in the Khrushchev Era: Inostrannaia literatura; Choosing texts: external interference and internal debates; The cold war; Puritanical censorship: euphemism and structural censorship; Trimming foreign texts; Chapter 5: Resisting Censorship; Aesopian translation; Working outside the system: samizdat translations; Resisting censorship: a complex blend of practices; Conclusion; Bibliography

Samantha Sherry is Leverhulme Early Career Fellow in the department of Medieval and Modern Languages, the University of Oxford

Discourses of Regulation and Resistance is a nuanced examination of the censorship of translated literature in Soviet Russia. Based on archival research, Sherry’s study reveals Soviet censorship to be shifting, unevenly applied, and often internalized. The book makes a real contribution to the study of translation in totalitarian states.

• Acknowledgements; Note on Transliteration; Introduction; Theorising Censorship: Russian and Western approaches; Censorship modes and practices; Structure of the book; Part I: Context; Chapter 1: Translation and translators in the Soviet Union; The development of translation in Soviet culture; Soviet translation theory; The official image of translators; Translators as apolitical intellectuals; Chapter 2: The Soviet censorship system; Censorship and the control of foreign literature; The spetskhran; Glavlit’s interventions in the text; Publishers’ role in the control of foreign literature; Editorial censorship: the link between state and author; Translators as censors; Part II: Case Studies; Chapter 3: Censorship in the Stalin period: Internatsional’naia literatura; A fragile cosmopolitanism; The rhetoric of Soviet superiority; Political and ideological taboo; Fascism and anti-fascism; The war: a sudden reversal; Puritanical censorship; ‘Sovietising’ foreign culture; Chapter 4: Censorship in the Khrushchev Era: Inostrannaia literatura; Choosing texts: external interference and internal debates; The cold war; Puritanical censorship: euphemism and structural censorship; Trimming foreign texts; Chapter 5: Resisting Censorship; Aesopian translation; Working outside the system: samizdat translations; Resisting censorship: a complex blend of practices; Conclusion; Bibliography