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Editorial: Laughter tracked
A country’s sense of humour is a nebulous thing. But when it starts to disappear, something serious is afoot.
Index magazine talks shadows, spectres and socialism
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] In the Summer 2017 issue of Index on Censorship, our special report looks at how the consequences of the Russian...
100 years on
The summer 2017 issue of Index on Censorship magazine explores how the consequences of the 1917 Russian Revolution still affect freedoms today, in Russia and around the world. Andrei Arkhangelsky argues that the Soviet impulse to censor never left Russia, North Korea art expert BG Muhn shows how the nation’s art was initially, at least, affected by the USSR, and Nina Khrushcheva, a great-granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, reflects on the Soviet echoes in Trump’s use of the phrase “enemies of the people”.
Contents: 100 years on
The Summer 2017 issue of Index on Censorship magazine looks at how the consequences of the 1917 Russian Revolution still affect freedoms today
Summer magazine launch party: Russia’s revolution and our freedoms
From propaganda to film and literature as well as politics, the summer 2017 issue of Index on Censorship magazine reports on the implications of the Russian revolution of 1917.
Turkey’s journalists have no time for fear
Cumhuriyet journalist Canan Coşkun, facing two upcoming trials for her reporting, talks about her attitude to the dangers of life as a reporter.
Journalists in Mexico under threat from cartels, government and even each other
Mexico-based journalist Duncan Tucker on the threats to reporters for doing their jobs.
Editorial: Fact-filled future?
The “now” generation’s thirst for instant news is squeezing out good journalism. We need an attitude change to secure its survival
Spies, lies and wandering eyes
In the spring issue of Index on Censorship magazine, we look at how free speech around the world is under massive pressure from conflicting interests.
A quarterly journal set up in 1972, Index on Censorship magazine has published oppressed writers and refused to be silenced across hundreds of issues.
The brainchild of the poet Stephen Spender, and translator Michael Scammell, the magazine’s very first issue included a never-before-published poem, written while serving a sentence in a labour camp, by the Soviet dissident Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who went on to win a Nobel prize later that year.
The magazine continued to be a thorn in the side of Soviet censors, but its scope was far wider. From the beginning, Index declared its mission to stand up for free expression as a fundamental human right for people everywhere – it was particularly vocal in its coverage of the oppressive military regimes of southern Europe and Latin America but was also clear that freedom of expression was not only a problem in faraway dictatorships. The winter 1979 issue, for example, reported on a controversy in the United States in which the Public Broadcasting Service had heavily edited a documentary about racism in Britain and then gone to court attempting to prevent screenings of the original version. Learn more.