Censorship and History since 1945

This chapter discusses the classification of types of censorship as they have developed since 1945. Censorship of history has been practiced in all modes, genres, fields, categories, and periods of history, and in all countries. To begin with, it ranges over all modes of the historiographical operation. Pre-censorship, often invisible to the public, attempts to regulate research: archives are cleansed or kept secret, and manuscripts are rewritten without authorial consent. Meanwhile, post-censorship means that publications are banned, their authorship is deleted or changed without authorial consent, that lectures are boycotted, or the content of teaching courses is improperly interfered with. The importance of the censorship of history clearly varies according to whether a given political regime is dictatorial, democratic, or transitory between both. The chapter also analyzes the relationships between censorship and epistemology, truth and ethics

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