INFORMACIJOS HIERARCHIJA VĖLYVUOJU SOVIETMEČIU: BIBLIOTEKŲ ATVEJIS
THE HIERARCHYOF INFORMATIONINTHE LATE SOVIETPERIOD: THE CASE OF LIBRARY

Summary/Abstract: The article deals with the situation of libraries in the late soviet period (1964–1988) as an element of soviet pu¬blic sphere. The soviet public sphere is interpreted not in a normative sense (as a contribution to a normative political theory of democracy), but only as a structure of communication, and it is compared with the concept of the public sphere as a place of “world-disclosing”, proposed by Craig Calhoun. It is suggested that a typical metaphor of pyramid is valid to understand the hierarchy of information in libraries, but it is necessary to analyse this pyramid on three levels – political, administrative, and ideological. Each of these levels shows that we should approach the soviet libraries not as a place of “world-disclosing”, but as a place of “world-closing”.

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