Censorship

Aggressors may impose strict control over all forms of public expression, book printing, and mass media. Banning the publication of literature without the sanction of appointed censors, filtering information, and repressing independent authors allow the colonizer to monopolize the information space. This prevents the spread of dissent and ensures that the aggressor's state ideology is imposed on the colonized society without alternative.

ID: T0101
Sub-techniques:  No sub-techniques
People: Ukrainians
Version: 1.0
Created: 21 April 2026
Last Modified: 21 April 2026

Procedure Examples

ID Name Description
C0008 Annexation of the Kyiv Metropolis by the Moscow Patriarchate (1685–1690)

The introduction of censorship control over Ukrainian book printing. Patriarch Joachim prohibited publications without his sanction and sent a "reprimand for publishing books without prior permission." "The anathema of the Russian Orthodox Church on church books printed in the Ukrainian literary language of the time"[1]. [2][3].

C0095 Attempted Coup d'État by the GKChP (August 1991)

Immediately after the start of the putsch, GKChP representatives announced the introduction of a state of emergency and the forced shutdown of most independent mass media[4].

C0051 Ban on Culture and the Press Before World War I (1913–1914)

Purging of the information space: «Nicholas II's decree abolishing the Ukrainian press»[1].

C0049 Ban on the Language in Books and Public Speeches (1889–1905)

Restriction on the translation of literature: "The Russian government orders censors to watch strictly that no Ukrainian literary translations from the Russian language are permitted"[1]. Restriction of access to literature: "A ban on the import of Ukrainian books from abroad"[1].

C0043 Ban on Ukrainian Book Printing (1720)

Introduction of strict censorship of book printing: the "Decree of Peter I banning the printing of books in the Ukrainian language at the Kyiv-Pechersk and Chernihiv printing houses"[1].

C0079 Cultural Terror and the "Executed Renaissance" (1933–1938)

Mass confiscation and destruction of literature declared "nationalist," and rigid control over the printed word and the arts[5].

S0008 Government

Introduction of strict censorship of book printing: the "Decree of Peter I banning the printing of books in the Ukrainian language at the Kyiv-Pechersk and Chernihiv printing houses"[1].

S0008 Government

Closure of the national press: "The publication of the Ukrainian literary and scholarly-political journal ‘Osnova’ ceased"[1].

S0008 Government

The censorship's refusal to consider national manuscripts: "The censor returned the manuscript of a grammar of the Ukrainian language without reading it"[1].

S0008 Government

Restriction on the translation of literature: "The Russian government orders censors to watch strictly that no Ukrainian literary translations from the Russian language are permitted"[1]. Restriction of access to literature: "A ban on the import of Ukrainian books from abroad"[1].

S0008 Government

Purging of the information space: «Nicholas II's decree abolishing the Ukrainian press»[1].

S0008 Government

Mass confiscation and destruction of literature declared "nationalist," and rigid control over the printed word and the arts[5].

S0011 Moscow Patriarchate

The introduction of censorship control over Ukrainian book printing. Patriarch Joachim prohibited publications without his sanction and sent a "reprimand for publishing books without prior permission." "The anathema of the Russian Orthodox Church on church books printed in the Ukrainian literary language of the time"[1]. [2][3].

S0011 Moscow Patriarchate

Mass confiscation of national educational and religious literature: the "Decree of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on the confiscation of Ukrainian primers and church books from the population"[1].

C0085 Postwar Ideological Terror ("Zhdanovshchina") (1946–1953)

Total ideological control over art and the press, banning of literary works, and vilification of writers for alleged "bourgeois nationalism"[6].

S0021 Propaganda

Total ideological control over art and the press, banning of literary works, and vilification of writers for alleged "bourgeois nationalism"[6].

G0009 Russian Empire

Mass confiscation of national educational and religious literature: the "Decree of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on the confiscation of Ukrainian primers and church books from the population"[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

Closure of the national press: "The publication of the Ukrainian literary and scholarly-political journal ‘Osnova’ ceased"[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

The censorship's refusal to consider national manuscripts: "The censor returned the manuscript of a grammar of the Ukrainian language without reading it"[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

Restriction on the translation of literature: "The Russian government orders censors to watch strictly that no Ukrainian literary translations from the Russian language are permitted"[1]. Restriction of access to literature: "A ban on the import of Ukrainian books from abroad"[1].

G0009 Russian Empire

Purging of the information space: «Nicholas II's decree abolishing the Ukrainian press»[1].

C0044 Russification of Education and Religion (1769–1786)

Mass confiscation of national educational and religious literature: the "Decree of the Synod of the Russian Orthodox Church on the confiscation of Ukrainian primers and church books from the population"[1].

S0017 Secret Police and Security Services

Immediately after the start of the putsch, GKChP representatives announced the introduction of a state of emergency and the forced shutdown of most independent mass media[4].

C0047 The Ems Ukaz and Total Censorship (1876–1887)

The censorship's refusal to consider national manuscripts: "The censor returned the manuscript of a grammar of the Ukrainian language without reading it"[1].

C0046 The Valuev Circular: Ban on the Language and Schools (1862–1869)

Closure of the national press: "The publication of the Ukrainian literary and scholarly-political journal ‘Osnova’ ceased"[1].

G0008 Tsardom of Muscovy

The introduction of censorship control over Ukrainian book printing. Patriarch Joachim prohibited publications without his sanction and sent a "reprimand for publishing books without prior permission." "The anathema of the Russian Orthodox Church on church books printed in the Ukrainian literary language of the time"[1]. [2][3].

G0008 Tsardom of Muscovy

Introduction of strict censorship of book printing: the "Decree of Peter I banning the printing of books in the Ukrainian language at the Kyiv-Pechersk and Chernihiv printing houses"[1].

G0010 USSR

Mass confiscation and destruction of literature declared "nationalist," and rigid control over the printed word and the arts[5].

G0010 USSR

Total ideological control over art and the press, banning of literary works, and vilification of writers for alleged "bourgeois nationalism"[6].

G0010 USSR

Immediately after the start of the putsch, GKChP representatives announced the introduction of a state of emergency and the forced shutdown of most independent mass media[4].

References

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  2. Татьяна Таирова-Яковлева. (2007). Мазепа.
  3. Татьяна Таирова-Яковлева. (2011). ИВАН МАЗЕПА И РОССИЙСКАЯ ИМПЕРИЯ ИСТОРИЯ «ПРЕДАТЕЛЬСТВА».
  1. Вікіпедія. (2026). Серпневий путч — Вікіпедія.
  2. Лариса Якубова, большая команда. (2013). Відносини держави, суспільства і особи під час створення радянського ладу в Україні (1917 – 1938 рр.).
  3. Михаил Зыгарь. (2023). Война и наказание: Как Россия уничтожала Украину.