Index explores gay rights and the grim aspect of gay life under Communism, and publishes the first English translations of long suppressed gay literature.0
Gay’s the word in Moscow
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CATEGORY: Magazine
Post-Wall world
In this issue, Index explores the end of the Cold War after the fall of the Berlin Wall and how questions that were muzzled by the superpowers had become a matter of urgency.
Media moguls & meglomania
As control over the mass media moves into fewer hands, Index asks to what media concentration is endangering free expression.
Liberty knell
As Europe fortifies its new Maginot Line against the feared invasion, this issue of Index examines the contentious matter of immigration.
Silence falls
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] By Stephen Spender It is fitting that with this Spring number Index on Censorship should be completely renewed. For we have moved into an entirely different world from that which existed in 1968 when I received a...
Tolerance and the intolerable
In this issue. Index on Censorship magazine explores the freedom of expression in the post-communist world and the new pressures on it.
Russia’s choice
Index on Censorship magazine looks at how ready Russia is for the destabilising and subversive election debate that is necessary to the democratic process
Window on Ireland
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the “Troubles”, the long and bitter conflict in Northern Ireland.
End of a multicultural world
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine explores the conflict in Bosnia: the pornographic documentation of grief and the betrayal of multiculturalism.
150 Indexes
In this issue, Index on Censorship magazine marks its 21st birthday and 150th issue.
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.