Problems of the censorship аctivity in the Far East of the Russian Empire during the First World War (on the example of Vladivostok)

Abstract

The article deals with the problems that hindered the functioning of censorship of the Russian Far East during the First World War. The author reveals the censorship failors in supervising regional periodicals, analyzes the situation in which the local press violated rules of censorship. Official correspondence of employees of the local censorship is given as examples. The results of the analysis of the contents of articles and notes of the periodicals published in the years of World War I in Vladivostok, proving insufficiency of activity of local acceptable bodies are given in work. Besides, in article activity of the Vladivostok censorship in the sphere of check of correspondence of the prisoners of war placed during war in the territory of the Primorsky territory is considered. The article exposes objective and subjective reasons of the local censorship dissatisfactory activity in control over the correspondence of prisoners of the war.