Official Documents, March 1975 (35.15)

<<No 35 : 31 May 1975>>

FOUR DOCUMENTS:

REMOVAL OF BOOKS FROM LIBRARIES AND BOOKSTORES.

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RSFSR Ministry of Culture (1)

12 December 1974. No. 01-305/22, index 103 693, Moscow K-74, 7 Kitaisky Street

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY [DSP] {1}

TO:

  • ASSR Ministries of Culture,
  • Cultural Administrations in Regional Soviet Executive Committees.
  • main Cultural Administrations in Moscow and Leningrad City Soviet Executive Committees.
  • enterprises, organizations and institutions subordinate to the authority of the republic (RSFSR).

The RSFSR Ministry of Culture sends for your information and guidance

the Order issued by the Director of The Main Administration for the Prevention of State Secrets Appearing in the Press [GLAVLIT] {2}, at the USSR Council of Ministers, No. 62-DSP, 30 October 1974.

On the removal from libraries and bookstores of books by A.A. Galich, V.E. Maximov, A.D. Sinyavsky, G.D. Tabachnik and Ye.G. Etkind.

You are requested to give the necessary directives to subordinate institutions, educational establishments, enterprises and organizations, libraries and book store chains.

  • Attachment:
  • the above-mentioned order in one copy ‘For Official Use’.

Deputy Minister of Culture, RSFSR, V. M. Striganov

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GLAVLIT USSR (2-4)

FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY [DSP], Copy No …

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ORDER

Issued by the Director of the Main Administration for the Prevention of State Secrets Appearing in the Press [GLAVLIT {Note 2}] at the USSR Council of Ministers,

No. 62-DSP, Moscow. 30 October 1974.

Subject: Removal from libraries and bookstores of books by A.A. Galich, V.E. Maximov, A.D. Sinyavsky, G.D. Tabachnik and Ye.G. Etkind.

The following books are to be removed from public libraries and book store chains:

Galich, A[lexander] A. [CCE 32.20 (21)]

  • August. A story for the theatre in two parts. Moscow: VUOAP Department for Distribution of Dramatic Productions (1959), 97 sheets, 200 copies printed on a duplicator.
  • Weekdays and Feast Days. A comedy-chronicle in two parts. Moscow: VUOAP [3] (1966), 97 sheets, 250 copies. Co-author I. Grekova.
  • Taimyr is Calling You. A comedy in three acts. Moscow: VUOAP Department for Distribution of Dramatic Productions (1955), 94 sheets, 25 copies printed on a duplicator. Co-author K. Isayev.
  • The Raft. Literary scenario for the film True Friends. Moscow: Iskusstvo publishers (1954), 108 pp. (“Library of Cinematic Drama”), 1,500 copies. Co-author K. Isayev.
  • To the Seven Winds. Cinema short novel. Moscow: Iskusstvo publishers (1962) 157 pp. (“Library of Cinematic Drama”) 1,300 copies. Co-author S. Rostotsky.
  • A ship called ‘Eaglet’. A romantic comedy in three acts. Moscow: VUOAP Department for Distribution of Dramatic Productions (1957) 96 sheets, 100 copies printed on a duplicator.
  • On the March. A dramatic poem in three acts. Moscow: VUOAP Department of Dramatic Productions (1957) 96 sheets. 100 copies printed on a duplicator.
  • On the March, Iskusstvo publishers (1957) 99 pp., 5,000 copies.
  • On the March, Vilnius (1959) 110 pp. (A play for amateur production.), 1,000 copies in Lithuanian. Printed on a duplicator.
  • On the March, Tallinn: Estonizdat publishers (1958) 76 pp., 2,500 copies in Estonian.

Maximov, V[ladimir] E. [CCE 32.20 (22)]

  • The House without a Number, A drama in three acts, nine scenes. Moscow: VUOAP (1969) 59 sheets. 150 copies.
  • Man is Alive (We live on the Earth). Short novels. Moscow: Molodaya Gvardiya publishers (1964). 104 pp, with illustrations, (First Books for Young People?) 65,000 copies.
  • (Short novels, stories.) Young (?), a book published in 1965; 160 pp, 15,000 copies.
  • The same. A drama in two acts. Repertoire of Moscow Drama, Theatre of Comedy, Moscow: VUOAP (1965). 72 sheets, 100 copies printed on a duplicator.
  • The same. Short stories. Riga: Latgosizdat publishers (1964). 127 pp., 30,000 copies in Latvian.
  • The same. Vilnius: Vaga publishers (1964). 82 pp., 10,000 copies in Lithuanian.
  • We Live on the Earth. (Short story.) Moscow, Sovetskaya Rossiya publishers (1970). 304 pp., 50,000 copies.
  • Call Signs of your Parallels. A play in two acts, six scenes. Moscow: VUOAP (1965). 47 sheets, 100 copies printed on a duplicator.
  • A Generation on Guard. (Verses and poems), Cherkassk (1956). 60 pp., 5,000 copies.
  • Strides Towards the Horizon. Stories. Moscow: Pravda publishers (1966.) 64 pp. (“Ogonyok Library No. 11”), 106,000 copies.
  • Short Novels. Moscow: Sovetsky Pisatel publishers (1967). 424 pp., 30,000 copies.
  • Echo at the End of August. A drama in two acts, 10 scenes. Moscow: VUOAP (1970). 10 pp., 75 copies.

Golomshtok, I[gor] N. and Sinyavsky, A[ndrei] D.

  • Picasso, Moscow: Znanie publishers (1960) /61/18 pp., 100,000 copies.

Menshutin, A. I. and Sinyavsky, A[ndrei] D.

  • The Poetry of the First Years of Revolution: 1917-1920, Moscow: Nauka publishers (1964). 442 pp. (USSR Academy of Sciences, Institute of World Literature), 4,000 copies.

Sinyavsky, A[ndrei] D. [CCE 30.14 (4)]

  • “Maxim Gorky’s Novel The Life of Klim Samgin and the History of Russian National Thought at the End of the 19th Century and in the 20th Century”: Synopsis of a thesis dissertation presented for the academic degree of D.Sc., Moscow (1952) 15 pp. (Moscow State University), 100 copies.

Tabachnik, Garri

  • Fame Does Not Fade (On V. V. Smushkevich), Moscow: Politizdat publishers (1967) 127 pp. (“Heroes and Adventures”), 130,000 copies.

Etkind, Ye[fim] G. [CCE 34.18 (15)]

  • Bertold Brecht. Leningrad: Prosveshchenie publishers, Leningrad Dept. (1971) 184 pp. (“Library of Philology”), 280,000 copies.
  • On the Art of Being a Reader. Leningrad (1964) 51 pp. (‘Znanie’ Society, RSFSR, Leningrad Dept.) 12,000 copies.
  • Poetry and Translation. Moscow-Leningrad: Sovetsky Pisatel publishers (1963). 130 pp., 6,000 copies.
  • “The Novels of Zola in the 1970’s and Problems of Realism”: Dissertation thesis presented for the Cand.Sci. academic degree (Leningrad, 1948). (3) pp. (Leningrad State University.) 85 copies.
  • Russian Poet-Translators, from Tredyakovsky to Pushkin. Leningrad: Nauka publishers, Leningrad Dept., (1973) 248 pp. (USSR Academy of Sciences: “series on the history of world culture”), 4,000 copies.
  • Seminars on French Stylistics. (Textbook for teaching institutes.) “Part 1. Prose”, Leningrad: Uchpedgiz publishers, Len. Dept. (1960) 274 pp., 4,000 copies in Russian and French.
  • Seminars on French Stylistics. “Part 2. Poetry”. Uchpedgiz publishers, Leningrad Dept. (1961) 225 pp., 4,000 copies in Russian and French.
  • Seminars on French Stylistics. 2nd edn. (revised and supplemented); “Part 1, Prose”: Moscow-Leningrad: Prosveshchenie publishers (1964) 350 pp., 5.000 copies in Russian and French.
  • Seminars on French Stylistics, 2nd edition (rev. and suppl.) “Part 2. Poetry”. Moscow and Leningrad: Prosveshchenie publishers (1964) 250 pp., 5,000 copies in Russian and French.
  • “Verse Translation as a Problem of Comparative Stylistics”: Synopsis of a thesis dissertation, presented for the academic degree of Ph.D., Leningrad (1965) 36 pp. (Leningrad State Herzen Pedagogical Institute.)

(Signed)

P. Romanov

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By order of the Director of The Main Administration for the Prevention of State Secrets Appearing in the Press [GLAVLIT {Note 2}] at the USSR Council of Ministers (No. 29-DSP, 20 April 1971) books by the following authors were removed from libraries (CCE 20.11 [23]):

R. L. Baumvol, I. B. Kerler and Z. L. Telesin, and also F. M. Leonidov’s book, Class Struggle: Contemporary Problems and Peculiarities.

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DYOMIN, GARAUDY ET AL.

The following books [M. = Moscow] were removed from libraries in the USSR, in accordance with a similar decree in 1971 or 1972.

  • 1. Mikhail Dyomin [4], Under a Sun that Does not Set (Verse [Abakan: 1956])
  • 2. Mikhail Dyomin, Kochevye (Verse [1967])
  • 3. Mikhail Dyomin, Facing the East (Verse [1958])
  • 4. Yu. Krotkov, John, Soldier of Peace (A play in five acts, nine scenes)
  • 5. R. Garaudy, Questions of Marxist-Leninist Knowledge* [5], M.: Foreign Literature
  • 6. R. Garaudy, The Grammar of Freedom*, M., 1952 [Paris 1950]
  • 7. R. Garaudy, Marxist Humanism: Five Polemical Sketches*, 1959 [Paris 1957]
  • 8. R. Garaudy, On Boundless Idealism: Picasso, St. John Perse, Kafka*, M., 1966
  • 9. R. Garaudy, Reply to Jean-Paul Sartre*, M.: Foreign Literature, 1966 [Paris 1960]
  • 10. R. Garaudy, Prometheus 1848* (Tragedy), M.: Foreign Literature, 1961.
  • 11. Ota Sik, Economics, Interests, Politics, M.: Progress, 1964
  • 12. Arkady V. Belinkov, Yury Tynyanov [6], M.: Sovetsky Pisatel, 1960
  • 13. Mikhail Dyomin, The Worldly Path (Stories [1966])
  • 14. Mikhail Dyomin, Parallels and Meridians (Verse [1962])
  • 15. Anatoly Kuznetsov, Continuation of a Legend [7].
  • 16. Economic Reforms in Socialist Countries, Collection of articles, Prague, 1967 [8].

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NOTES

  1. DSP = ДСП or «для служебнего пользования». “Not for Publication”, in other words.

    Compare these examples with Loeber’s analysis in Social Issues, 9 (CCE 19.12 [2]) of the extensive non-publication in the USSR (up to 80%) of normative and other acts.
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  2. Glavlit = The Main Administration for the Prevention of State Secrets Appearing in the Press at the USSR Council of Ministers. (See Gabriel Superfin on the early formative history of Soviet censorship, CCE 14.9.)
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  3. VUOAP = All-Union Administration for the Defence of Author’s Rights. Replaced in 1973, after the USSR joined the International Copyright Convention, by VAAP (All-Union Agency for Author’s Rights).
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  4. Mikhail DYOMIN (Georgy Ye. Trifonov; 1926-1984) visited and did not return from France in 1968. He spent time at the front and in exile under Stalin. A first cousin to the writer Yury Trifonov, these five volumes (1-3, 13 & 14) were removed from libraries.
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  5. Roger GARAUDY (1913-2012) was the author of over seventy books. Those works listed here* were first published in France, between 1950 and 1963:

    (5) was published in the USSR in 1955 (Paris ?1953), edited by V.I. Maltsev,
    (6) Paris 1950; Moscow 1952, editor and foreword author, F. V. Konstantinov,
    (7) Paris 1957; foreword to Russian edition (1959) by M. T. Jovchuk,
    (8) original Paris edition published in 1963; Russian edition (1966) has a foreword by Louis Aragon,
    (9) Paris ?1960; Moscow 1966,
    (10) Prometheus (1961), “a tragedy in five acts with a prologue”, first staged in France in 1958.

    Garaudy joined the French Communist Party (PCF) in 1933 and was part of its leadership for many years until his expulsion in 1970. (He converted to Islam in 1980. Later he was fined and given a suspended prison sentence for his 1996 book, The Founding Myths of Modern Israel.)
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  6. On Arkady V. Belinkov (1921-1970), see report on his life and death (CCE 14.11 [23]), his 1969 letter to the Pen Club (CCE 15.11 [4]) and the later removal (1979) of his works from libraries and bookshops (CCE 54.22 [16]).
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  7. Kuznetsov, who had “frequently travelled abroad”, asked for political asylum in the UK in July 1969 (KGB note to Central Committee, 4 August 1969, 1926-A [R], Amalrik Open Letter CCE 11.14 [1]).
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  8. Economic Reforms in Socialist Countries, 1967, 184 pp. No less than 10,000 copies.
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