Recommended not to publish : the functioning of propaganda, censorship and the media in late socialist Czechoslovakia
2022
Abstract
How did propaganda and censorship work in the media landscape of late socialist Czechoslovakia? Where did repression force an official consensus in an authoritarian state, and where did it rely on finer coercive means? The main part of the work is devoted to the analysis of media production, which in 1989 tried unsuccessfully to maintain strongly eroding propaganda concepts in society.