Translation Under Communism /

This book examines the history of translation under European communism, bringing together studies on the Soviet Union, including Russia and Ukraine, Yugoslavia, Hungary, East Germany, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria, and Poland. In any totalitarian regime maintaining control over cultural exchange is strat...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author:	SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors:	Rundle, Christopher (Editor), Lange, Anne (Editor), Monticelli, Daniele (Editor)
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2022.
Edition:	1st ed. 2022.
Subjects:	Translating and interpreting. Political science. Europe-Politics and government. Literature. Russia-History. Europe, Eastern-History. Soviet Union-History. Language Translation. Political Science. European Politics. Russian, Soviet, and East European History. Electronic books.
Online Access:	Connect to the full text of this electronic book

Table of Contents:

Part 1: Introduction
Chapter 1. Introduction (Christopher Rundle, Anne Lange, and Daniele Monticelli)
Chapter 2. Translation and the History of Communism (Anne Lange, Daniele Monticelli, and Christopher Rundle)
Part 2: The Soviet Union
Chapter 3. Translation and the Formation of the Soviet Canon of World Literature (Nataliia Rudnytska)
Chapter 4. Censorship, Permitted Dissent, and Translation Theory in the USSR: The Case of Kornei Chukovsky (Brian James Baer)
Chapter 5. Translating Inferno: Mikhail Lozinskii, Dante and the Soviet Myth of the Translator (Susanna Witt)
Chapter 6. Translation in Ukraine during the Stalinism Period: Literary Translation Policies and Practices (Oleksandr Kalnychenko and Lada Kolomiyets)
Part 3: Communist Europe
Chapter 7. The Politics of Translation in Yugoslavia from 1945 to 1952 (Maria Rita Leto)
Chapter 8. Ideological Control in a Slovene Socialist State Publishing House: Conformity and Dissent (Nike K. Pokorn)
Chapter 9. "Anyone who isn't against us is for us". Science Fiction Translated from English during the Kádár Era in Hungary (1956-89) (Anikó Sohár)
Chapter 10. The Impact of the Cultural Policy of the GDR on the Work of Translators (Hanna Blum)
Chapter 11. The Allen Ginsberg 'Case' and Translation (in) History: How Czechoslovakia Elected and then Expelled the King of May (Igor Tyšš)
Chapter 12. Literary Translation in Communist Bulgaria (1944-1989) (Krasimira Ivleva)
Chapter 13. Underground Fiction Translation in People's Poland, 1976-1989 (Robert Looby)
Part 4: Response
Chapter 14. A Battle for Translation (Vitaly Chernetsky).