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- Title
Index librorum prohibitorum a demokratikus Magyarországon.
- Authors
Sipos, Anna Magdolna
- Abstract
The study describes the historical and political environment of book weeding activities carried out in 1945-1946, the political processes in the background of the book lists in question and their composition. In 1945 a legal regulation made it compulsory to withdraw fascist, anti-Soviet and anti-democratic literature held in libraries, bookshops and print offices, and to destroy them. In 1945-1946 four lists of prohibited items were prepared. The first one was published in August 1945. It contained approximately 2000 books published mainly in the thirties and forties. In the spring of 1946 a new weeding process begun urged by the Soviets, whose implementation was strictly controlled. The second list contained fewer items. The majority of books on this list were published in the twenties, and as a result of the Trianon Treaty many discussed revisionist views. The list was dominated by German-language books that were deemed to be weeded. Beside 23 prohibited journals 129 notes (e.g. military and irredentist songs) were banned. The third list contained 562 Hungarian- and 49 German-language books. The majority of titles were of revisionist, anti-Semitic, nationalistic and militaristic nature. Beside Italian and German publications also works disseminating Japanese nationalist ideas became prohibited. The fourth list contained 523 items, mostly books and pamphlets etc. in Hungarian with racist and Nazi ideas, as well as anti-Soviet items by subject, but every list included „innocent”" or strongly disputable items too.
- Subjects
HUNGARY; BANNED books; FASCISM in literature; HUNGARIAN history, 1945-1989; DESELECTION of library materials; MANAGEMENT of library collection development
- Publication
Library Review / Konyvtari Figyelo, 2007, Vol 17, Issue 3, p413
- ISSN
0023-3773
- Publication type
Article