Uurimuses analüüsitakse ajakirjanduslike tekstide kirjutamist Nõukogude Liidus. Töö keskendub juba valmis ajakirjandustekstide ilmumiseelsele tsenseerimisele 1980-ndate aastate Nõukogude Eestis.

This study analyses the production of Soviet journalistic text. It focuses on editorial-censorhip transformations in texts made during the final stage of textual preparation in journalistic institutions of Soviet Estonia at the beginning of the 1980s.
The book deals with a world in which several, totally different cultures as sign systems existed simultaneously: official Soviet ideology, traditional national culture, and the expression of modern global existence through internally controversial forms. Together these formed a post-modern jumble of rich significations and a confused world of oppositional contexts of meaning. Looking at our contemporary world from that position, we have to submit, that the present affluence of sign systems, which functions by another principle, is a fight for the renewed essence of global and historical meanings. In this fight for global and historical meanings, journalism has been rendered unable to make its own decisions.

Contents:

• Introduction to the analysis of public text
• Historical and conceptual perspectives on the soviet totalitarian communication
• Method and material
• Typology of textual intervention strategies
• Representations of myths and social criticism: the covert criteria of censorship
• Interlude: presentation of work and worker in texts
• Transformation of functions of elements of text. Effects of textual transformation
• Final discussions
• Appendix
• Interviews, arhcives
• References
• Summary