- Spetskhran
Spetskhran ( _ru. Спецхран an abbreviation for "Special Storage Section", отдел специального хранения) were limited access collections and archival reserves in libraries and
archive s of theSoviet Union , as part of the system ofcensorship in the Soviet Union .Access to materials from Special Storage was conditional on special permission: a person had to ether have the corresponding level of security access or to have a written permission from the
First Department from person's job.Special Storage was for two major types of publications: those deemed "ideologically dangerous" and classified information whose disclosure could threaten the economy and defense of the state. Examples:
*Early Soviet publications associated with the "banned" names (Leon Trotsky ,Nikolai Bukharin , etc.)
*Early Russian non-communist publications
*Russian emigre publications
*Foreign language publications deemed threatening to the Soviet State.
*Foreign scientific and technical publications were normally available to general readership, with "threatening" pages cut out, and full versions available from "spetskhran".
*Various classified publications, such as Soviet classified dissertations ("Диссертация для служебного пользования"), classified technical references, etc.References
* [http://www.bibalex.org/wsisalex/8.Censorship%20in%20the%20USSR%20and%20the%20Russian%20State%20Library.doc Censorship in the USSR and the Russian State Library]
*Stelmakh, V. D. [http://muse.jhu.edu/cgi-bin/access.cgi?uri=/journals/libraries_and_culture/v036/36.1stelmakh.html "Reading in the Context of Censorship in the Soviet Union"] , Libraries & Culture - Volume 36, Number 1, Winter 2001, pp. 143-151,University of Texas Press
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