Central Press Supervision Authority Collection at the Security Services Archive

The Central Press Supervision Authority files, stored at the Security Services Archive in Prague, contain materials documenting the control of press and newly issued publications in Czechoslovakia from 1953 to 1968. Examples of censorship with extensive transcriptions from ‘defective’ literary works are very valuable as they include unknown information on the ways authors and editors negotiated with the censors, reveal the origins of the works, provide information on the alterations that were imposed and the existence of text variants, and they even cover prominent authors’ previously unknown works.

中央新闻监管局档案，存放于布拉格的安全服务档案馆，收录了从1953年至1968年期间关于捷克斯洛伐克新闻控制及新出版物发行的档案材料。其中，对‘缺陷’文学作品进行的审查实例及其详尽的转录具有极高的价值，因为这些材料包含了关于作者与编辑如何与审查者协商的未知信息，揭示了作品的起源，提供了关于施加的修改以及文本变体存在的信息，甚至涵盖了著名作家之前鲜为人知的作品。