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In-class or short-term assignments
1) Browse the recommended items from the COURAGE Registry and consult the assigned readings: make a list of keywords of Party-defined "ideological fallacies" that were not tolerated by censorship. Discuss their meaning in class!

2) Find a film and a literary work that were banned or censored in a country in Eastern Europe under Communism. (Items included in the COURAGE Registry do not count.) Why were these censored?

3) Collaborate with your classmates in small groups of 3-4: try to map the institutions responsible for censorship in Communist Eastern Europe. Compare the lists you made in class and discuss how those institutions contributed to censorship.
Offsite, longer-term assignments

Run a filtered search in the COURAGE Registry, and identify archives relevant to the topic of censorship in your geographic area. If these are too far away to visit, consult with your professor and local librarians to find out where such materials could be located that you are able to access. What sort of collections could you identify? When was the collection established, by whom, and why? Are there any similarities with the provenance of the Eastern European collections included in the COURAGE Registry?

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