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Thought control in Russia today is fundamentally different from the censorship that existed under the czars, Michael Karpovich, Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures, said last night...
...Former Russian Monarchs merely required their subjects to keep their mouths closed, but the Soviet regime demands from everyone 'a mouth wide open in praise of the government," Karpovich declared. The reason for the difference, he explained, is that Russia today is a totalitarian state, while under the czars it was only a despotism...
This trend in the Soviet Union has been observed by Michael Karpovich, the Curt Huge Reisinger Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature. "There was considerable variety of thought immediately after the Revolution," Karpovich said, "but now thought is so uniform that it is boring...
...shifts in power last week indicated certain economic changes, but there is no such change indicated toward the arts. Karpovich, disgusted with the present status of Russian literature, says that Russian creativity, instead of progressing, as Marxist theory insists the Russian state will, is actually going backward
...Karpovich joined the faculty in 1927 and has been department chairman since 1949. He was born in Tiflis, Russia, in 1888, graduating from the University of Moscow in 1914. He came to this country...