#BannedBooksWeek
Banned Books Week is an annual event that draws attention to books restricted by libraries and schools. It may sound like censorship is something intrinsic only for tyrannic powers, but, unfortunately, it is not.
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This Soviet-Era Handmade Book is Literally a Photo Copy
I found this book in an old books department in the Russian city of Novorossiysk. This sample of Soviet samizdat was supposedly made in 1970s and is literally a photo copy of a 19th-century book.
Soviet Censorship Bookbinding Tutorial
Soviet era is known for its many bizarre instances of censorship. Vanishing of the commissars may be the most famous, and you can find more in the Wikipedia. However, that’s all about photographs, and I’d like to share with you a bookbinding-related story.
