Provincial censorship (Gorky Obllit) in 1953-1964
From 1953 to 1966 the machinery of Soviet censorship which stood on guard of state secrets underwent changes both structural and functional. The article on the study of archival documents of Gorky Obllit shows the changes in staff and organization of the Department, as well as gives a generalized description of censorship removals in order to clarify the question of how censorship has changed under Khrushchev and if it changed at all.