Censorship as a factor of the development of regional soviet sociology
In this article, the influence of party dictatorship and censorship on the development of one of the private sociological disciplines is considered. It is shown mainly the negative aspects and consequences of such an influence, such as restriction of the scientific research freedom, dogmatism, servility, which had led the scientific discipline to total stagnation. The case of the autonomous republics of the Middle Volga region is used.