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Index on Censorship - Volume 46, Number 2

Index on Censorship

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Volume 46, Issue 2, July 2017

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Editorial
Free accessEditorialFirst published July, 2017pp. 1-3
Laughter tracked: Comedians are being locked up in Spain,but it’s not the only country where having a laugh can get you in trouble
Rachael Jolley
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 6-7
100 Years On: What Difference Russia’s Revolution Makes to Freedom Today
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 8-11
Colouring inside the red lines: North Korea expert debunks myths and expectations about the country’s art
BG Muhn
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 12-15
Mexico’s unlikely visitor: Leon Trotsky might have arrived in Mexico with blood on his hands,but he quickly became a free speech fighter
Duncan Tucker
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 16-18
The revolution will be dramatised: Filmmaker Sergei Eisenstein manipulated the past in his work,but was it for dramatic or propaganda purposes?
David Aaronovitch
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 20-25
A spectre that still haunts Russia: The Soviet fear of alternative voices persists in Russia
Andrey Arkhangelsky
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 26-29
Lenin’s long literary shadow: Uzbekistan’s ruler still expects writers to conform
Hamid Ismailov
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 30-32
Land of milk and money: Israel’s kibbutz movement walks a fine line between being harmonious and restrictive
Lahav Harkov
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 34-36
Friends reunited: For most of the 20th century,Turkey and Russia were hostile neighbours. Now,as both clamp down on free speech,they’re finding common ground
Kaya Genç
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 38-40
The enemies of those people: Nikita Khrushchev’s great-grandchild considers life in Trump’s USA compared to her Soviet upbringing
Nina Khrushcheva
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 42-45
Airbrushing history: With China’s Communist Party still in power,the way 1917 is remembered must follow the party line. One man learnt the hard way
Jeffrey WasserstromYidi Wu
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 46-48
Being the big man: Angola’s long-ruling president has constructed an image of himself straight out of Stalin’s playbook
Rafael Marques de Morais
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 49-51
The big chill: Staged press conferences and tapped phones were two obstacles to reporting from Moscow during the Cold War for The New York Times’ correspondent
Bernard Gwertzman
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 52-54
There’s nothing new about fake news: It might be a new term,but the mechanisms of fake news have been in place in Belarus for decades
Andrei Aliaksandrau
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 58-61
Shot in Havana: The state still controls Cuba’s film industry,but a Cuban producer is hopeful about changes ahead
Jan Fox
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 62-63
Global View: Freedoms are being curtailed across the globe in the name of “national security”
Jodie Ginsberg
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 64-65
In Focus
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 66-69
Provoking the president: South African cartoonist Zapiro talks censorship and drawing in an exclusive interview
Raymond Joseph
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 70-72
Yemen: “Nobody is listening to us”: A Yemeni journalist discusses the time he was abducted for 15 days and other dangers for reporters
Laura Silvia Battaglia
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 73-75
Novel lines: An interview with Margaret Atwood on current threats to free speech and why scientists need defending
Jemimah Steinfeld
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 76-78
No country for free speech?: An old libel law and a new one aimed at social media are two threats to free expression in Germany
Daniel Leisegang
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 79-81
Read all about it: Somaliland’s hugely successful festival is marking 10 years of extending access to books
Julia Farrington
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 82-84
See no evil: A Chechen journalist on the current climate of fear and intimidation that is stopping real news getting out
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 85-86
No laughing matter: Making jokes about Franco and ETA is off the table in Spain if you want to avoid trouble with the law
Silvia Nortes
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 87-89
Cementing dissatisfaction: Indonesians experimenting with creative forms of protest are grabbing attention and sparking new movements
Eliza Vitri Handayani
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 90-91
Culture
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 92-97
Frenemies: A mysterious man arrives at the White House. What does he want? A short story written exclusively for Index
Kaya Genç
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 98-104
Stitched in time: The award-winning writer on why the Chinese government controls historical narratives and an original story based on their ban of time travel shows
Jonathan TelJemimah Steinfeld
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 105-109
A tale of two Peters: First-time English translation of a story about Peter the Great by Russia’s Comrade Count,Alexei Tolstoy
Alexei TolstoyBoris Dralyuk
News
Free accessNewsFirst published July, 2017pp. 110-113
Index around the world: A reporter from the Maldives explains why the Index 2017 awards were a much-needed boost
Kieran Etoria-King
Other
Free accessOtherFirst published July, 2017pp. 114-116
What the Romans really did for us: When it comes to propaganda,Roman emperor Augustus was ahead of his time
Jemimah Steinfeld

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