Overview
Captivated at a young age by Russia, Marianna Tax Choldin immersed herself as a student at the University of Chicago in that country's language and culture. In her book she describes the tension between her strong commitment to freedom of expression and her growing understanding of Russian and Soviet censorship. Fluent in Russian, she travels widely in post-Soviet Russia, speaking with hundreds of Russians about their own censorship history. She writes of the close friendships she formed in Russia, and reflects on her Jewish roots in the country her family had left behind 100 years earlier.
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Author: Marianna Tax Choldin
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Imprint: Academic Studies Press
Dimensions:
Width: 15.50cm
, Height: 1.10cm
, Length: 23.40cm
Weight: 0.525kg
ISBN: 9781618115447
ISBN 10: 1618115448
Pages: 204
Publication Date: 01 December 2016
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Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
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Reviews
Marianna Tax Choldin has written a memoir of emotional intensity, intellectual depth, and professional expertise on censorship in the Soviet Union and Russia. The book is a wide sweep of personal ties, political and social context, and the changing meaning of public monuments. With a passionate commitment to freedom of speech, the author describes the difficulties and rewards of mounting exhibitions about censorship to a public from whom what has been left out, deliberately mistranslated, or forbidden altogether has been hidden. --Ellen Mickiewicz, author of <i>No Illusions: The Voices of Russia's Future Leaders</i>
<i>Garden of Broken Statues: Exploring Censorship in Russia</i> covers a lot of territory: geographically, from Hyde Park to Moscow to East Bangladesh; ideologically, from Soviet omni-censorship to the less systemic challenges to free speech we find in the States; and, above all, interpersonally, as Choldin pays tribute to the people who have shaped her life ... it's such a wide-ranging book, it might be recommended not only to those interested in Russia or censorship, but also just about all readers of this journal: namely, librarians and information professionals curious about the personal and professional lives of those who have committed the better part of their lives to the cause of international understanding. --Scott Schoger, World Libraries Vol 22. No. 1 (2016)
Author Information
Marianna Tax Choldin is a Russian scholar and librarian who studies censorship in imperial Russia, the Soviet Union, and post-Soviet Russia. Fluent in Russian, she has made more than 50 trips to Russia since 1960 and has traveled widely in the region, meeting with colleagues, curating exhibitions, and lecturing about censorship.
