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ISSUE: VOLUME 46.02 SUMMER 2017
100 years on

What difference Russia's revolution makes to our freedom today

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”. Read the full contents

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Jonathan Tel
Short story writer
Jonathan Tel
Short story writer

Jonathan Tel is the 2016 winner of The Sunday Times EFG Short Story Prize and the 2015 Commonwealth short story prize. He has written both novels and short stories and has been published in The New Yorker and Granta, amongst others.

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Nina Khrushcheva
Writer and academic
Nina Khrushcheva
Writer and academic

Nina Khrushcheva is professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York. She is the author of The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, and is the great-grandchild of Nikita Khrushchev.

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Rafael Marques de Morais
Journalist
Rafael Marques de Morais
Journalist

Rafael Marques de Morais is an author and investigative journalist from Angola, who currently runs the anti-corruption website makaangola.org. He won the Index on Censorship Freedom of Expression Award in 2015 for journalism.

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Editorial

Laughter tracked

Spain and Germany are just two countries where making a joke can land you in serious trouble. When cartoonists, puppeteers and satirists are being arrested, and novelists told their plots must only support the government line, you know your nation is in deep trouble.

June 2017

Contents

A look at what’s inside the Summer 2017 issue, which explores Russia’s revolution 100 years on, as well as interviews with Margaret Atwood, Zapiro and more.  

Magazine Extra: Podcast

Featuring interviews with Margaret Atwood, North Korea art specialist BG Muhn, Susan Reed, curator from the British Library, and the Uzbek writer Hamid Ismailov.

June 2017

“Nobody is listening to us”

Yemeni journalist Abdulaziz Muhammad al-Sabri details the dangers of reporting in his country. Interview by Laura Silvia Battaglia.

June 2017

The revolution will be dramatised

Influential Soviet director Sergei Eisenstein is often portrayed as the godfather of propaganda in film. David Aaronovitch argues that historical drama can also be manipulative when it ignores details of the past.

June 2017

Magazine Extra: The Commisar Vanishes

The falsification of images was a means of propaganda in the Soviet Union. Stalin manipulated photography to erase all memory of his victims.

August 2017

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