Mark Twain censorship?

[yelena kalinsky]

Thanks for the leads, everyone.

The only things I've been able to dig up so far is a few statements to the
effect that Twain had been "labeled a bourgeois writer" (The Mark Twain
Encyclopedia) and that his books were "confiscated at the border" in 1930,
but had "become best sellers in the Soviet Union" by 1946. (Banned Books:
387 BC to 1978 AD). But there are no citations given to actual instances. I
know that Twain was hugely popular, and it makes sense that his descriptions
of Russia might have been cut in tsarist times, but I'm curious whether
Twain's satire ever faced political accusations in the Soviet period despite
its popularity.

best,

Yelena


On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 11:05 AM, Jan Zielinski <zielinski at gmx.ch> wrote:

> Yelena Kalinsky asks:
>
>
> >I wonder if anybody knows whether Mark Twain was ever censored in the
> Soviet Union or how I might find out?
>
> He was censored already by the tsarist censorship:
>
> "Первый русский перевод <<Простаков за границей>> появился в 1897 г. Царская
> цензура сделала в книге сокращение, в частности там, где он описывал
> пребывание в России."
>
> http://vashsevdom.narod.ru/histor/twain.html
>
> http://forum.roerich.info/showthread.php?t=7210
>
> Here you have something about the film "Adventures of Mark Twain" and the
> soviet censorship:
>
> http://www.diary.ru/~chageandaska/p31513978.htm<http://www.diary.ru/%7Echageandaska/p31513978.htm>
>
> You may also want to have a look at this 1963 "Voprosy literatury" paper,
> to see the other side of the problem:
>
> http://dlib.eastview.com/browse/doc/11980114?enc=deu
>
> Jan Zielinski
>
>
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