Information Management in Bolshevik-type Party States: A Version of the Information Society
Information Management in Bolshevik-type Party States: A Version of the Information Society

Summary/Abstract: The scarcity of information, the existence of censorship, and the difficulties encountered by even leading intellectuals in getting their works published or shown were well-known aspects of daily life in Bolshevik-type party states, yet there are things concerning the role of knowledge, information, and the "word" in general here that point beyond the mere acknowledgment and denunciation of repression . To state the obvious: if so much care is put into the control of information, then there must be some reason for it, and, therefore, the written word and information possess elements of power that are not vested in them in other social systems . One is reminded here of the anecdote about C. Wright Mills's experiences in Poland in 1956 told by Zygmunt Bauman. [...]

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