Fighting Words
Charles A. Ruud
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Description for Fighting Words
Paperback. First published in 1982, Fighting Words focuses on the most common form of censorship in Imperial Russia: the governmental system that screened written works before or after publication to determine their acceptability. Num Pages: 330 pages. BIC Classification: 1DVUA; HBJD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 226 x 152 x 19. Weight in Grams: 440.
Censorship took many forms in Imperial Russia. First published in 1982, Fighting Words focuses on the most common form: the governmental system that screened written works before or after publication to determine their acceptability. Charles A. Ruud shows that, despite this system, the nineteenth-century Russian Imperial government came to grant far more extensive legal publishing freedoms than most Westerners realize, adopting a more liberal attitude towards the press by permitting it a position recognized by law.
Fighting Words also reveals, however, that the government fell far short of implementing these reforms, thus contributing to the growth of opposition to ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
University of Toronto Press Canada
Number of pages
330
Condition
New
Number of Pages
330
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9781442610248
SKU
V9781442610248
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Ref
99-1
About Charles A. Ruud
Charles A. Ruud is professor emeritus in the Department of History at the University of Western Ontario.
Reviews for Fighting Words
'Fighting Words is an intelligent, unpretentious, and compact monograph, and scholars dealing with Imperial Russia will find it helpful ... Fighting Words is thoroughly documented, well written, and carefully researched. Students of the period will use it often and with confidence for some time to come.'
Abbott Gleason
Russian Review
Abbott Gleason
Russian Review