CENSORSHIP OF THE HUNGARIAN-LANGUAGE PRESS IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA (1944–1953)
CENSORSHIP OF THE HUNGARIAN-LANGUAGE PRESS IN COMMUNIST ROMANIA (1944–1953)

Summary/Abstract: After the Second World War, as a consequence of implementing the more than two decade long Soviet practice in the field of censorship, essentially uniform control methods were established in Eastern Europe, which gradually changed from the fifties according to the political attributes of the particular countries. In order to impose the ideological basis of the political system, the Romanian communist power created a total monopoly of the sphere of public communication, which included, besides censorship, the elimination of all alternative information sources contradicting official propaganda. The paper outlines the institutional structure of communist censorship in Romania in the period 1944-1953, together with the specific measures that affected the Hungarian community, the transformation on the press system and censorship of Hungarian-language newspapers.

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