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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US">En meget viktig meldin på Ericsons blogg i dag:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="mso-fareast-language:EN-US"><o:p> </o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-top:7.5pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:20.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.75pt">Book Purges as a Weapon of War<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><a href="https://i0.wp.com/bibliotekettarsaka.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Skjermbilde-2023-02-11-kl.-10.25.06.png?ssl=1"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333;text-decoration:none"><img border="0" width="209" height="253" style="width:2.1805in;height:2.6388in" id="Bilde_x0020_3" src="cid:image001.png@01D9413A.91411350"></span></a><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Did
Dostoevsky lay the foundations of the “Russian world ” and Russian messianism?</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"> Illustration by V. Perov in public domain.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">By Anders Ericson and Mikael Böök<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">On 7 February, at a Swedish professional forum for librarians, the first, incredulous, reaction was given to the claim
that Ukrainian librarians are now dumping Russian books<i> in their millions</i>. The source was </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/languages-culture/news/ukraine-withdraws-19-million-russian-soviet-era-books-from-libraries/" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">Eura</span></a><a href="https://www.euractiv.com/section/languages-culture/news/ukraine-withdraws-19-million-russian-soviet-era-books-from-libraries/"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">ctiv.com</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">.
But we also found the story on </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.mynewsdesk.com/no/kulturbyen-oslo/pressreleases/ukraina-gir-bokgave-til-deichman-3224780" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">Newsweek</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">,
and they were in doubt: “Has Ukraine Banned 19 Million Russian Books From its Libraries?” They wrote that the claim “is missing important context”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Others mentioned the figure 11 million. Rumours also varied about what kind of literature is or will be removed. Newsweek summarises: “Without more detailed information,
we cannot know whether all the banned books were by Russian authors or about Russia, whether 19 million separate books were banned, or how much of the Russian-language books will be replaced by Ukrainian editions.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">But as early as 23 May last year, Interfax-Ukraine </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://interfax.com.ua/news/interview/834181.html" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">published</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"> (in
Ukrainian) a very comprehensive plan to discard not just pro-Russian literature, but most Russian literature, including classics, <i>totalling 100 (one hundred) million books</i>. The Ukrainian Istitute of Mass Information (IMI) published a summary of the
interview </span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://imi.org.ua/en/news/more-than-100-million-propaganda-books-to-be-withdrawn-from-libraries-book-institute-director-i45735" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">her</span></a><a href="https://imi.org.ua/en/news/more-than-100-million-propaganda-books-to-be-withdrawn-from-libraries-book-institute-director-i45735"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">e</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">The following quotations from the interview are based on our own translation (with help from DeepL.com) of the interview from Interfax-Ukraina. The interviewee is Ms Oleksandra
Koval who is the head of the Ukrainian Book Institute and the title of the interview is: “Director of UIK Koval: Books are weapons, either defensive or offensive.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Based on what we get from our translation, Koval provided other figures, more context and fuller information than Euractiv and Newsweek revealed or discussed almost one
year later.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">The Ukrainian authorities might have modified their plan since last May, but we see no reason to believe so. On the contrary,
a recent report in The Times with the title “</span><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/war-in-ukraine-on-the-front-line-of-a-countrys-cultural-de-russification-pgl0bz96x" target="_blank"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">On
the front line of Ukraine’s cultur</span></a><a href="https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/war-in-ukraine-on-the-front-line-of-a-countrys-cultural-de-russification-pgl0bz96x"><span lang="EN-US" style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">al de-Russification</span></a></span><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">”
suggests that the plan is currently being put into full effect.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Oleksandra Koval, The Director, says that<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">“primarily anti-Ukrainian books with imperial narratives and propaganda for violence, pro-Russian and Chauvinist politics
[are] being removed from public libraries.</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">The second round … will include books by contemporary Russian authors published in Russia after 1991. Probably of different
genres, including books for children, romance novels and detective stories. This is an obvious requirement of the times. Although I understand that they may be in demand.”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Asked whether this process means removing “the so-called Russian classics” from libraries, the director said there were many opponents to this, but according to her, no
one has given enough reason why this should not be done:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">“We read all these books.In my school some Russian classics were regarded as the high point of world literature. Because
we had a rather mediocre knowledge of the world classics, many of us were left with the belief that without this literature it is actually impossible to develop the intellect and an aesthetic sense, to be an educated person. This is actually not true,”</span></i><span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">According to her, it was Russian poets and writers like Alexander Pushkin and Fyodor Dostoevsky who laid the foundations for the “Russian world” and Russian messianism.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">“This is actually very harmful literature, it can really influence people’s point of view. Therefore, my personal opinion is that
these books should also be removed from public and school libraries. They should probably be kept in university and research libraries so that experts can study the roots of evil and totalitarianism,”</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Koval also said:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">“I think there will be many witty reflections and studies written about how the Russian classics affected the mentality of Russians
and how this indirectly led to such an aggressive attitude and attempt to dehumanize all other peoples in the world, including Ukrainians.”</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">We should, however, take into account, Koval adds, that librarians are paid in accordance with the book-lending rate:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">“In my opinion, the most important obstacle in the process of eliminating literature is not the defence of Tolstoy, but the simple,
economic, but at the same time comprehensible interests of librarians.“</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Then Koval is asked<i> “What about public libraries abroad? Since it is highly probable that Russia has worked to fill them with its own stories?“</i><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">“- The Ukrainian state cannot impose this directly. But there is a public that can go to any local library and demand that certain
books be removed. … During the first days of the war, we also appealed to the world, to various institutions, for a complete ban on Russian books in the world. Many supported the boycott, but he did not get much support among foreign librarians. Therefore,
we must continue discussions with them.</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right;line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">>> On 3 March last year Mikael Böök wrote on this blog about <a href="https://bibliotekettarsaka.com/2022/03/03/what-librarians-are-saying-about-the-war-in-ukraine/"><span style="color:#333333;text-decoration:none">«What
librarians are saying about the war in Ukraine»</span></a>.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">There is also talk about the balance between languages, as there are many people in Ukraine who have Russian as their main language.
One of the questions the director is asked is: <i>«Won’t there be more changes in this area, will the publishers be able to print Russian-language books?</i>»<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">– We are a democratic country, we can publish in all languages. The only language law is that if a book is published in Russian,
the same number of copies must be published in Ukrainian. Perhaps it is the implementation of this law that has led to a significant reduction in the number of Russian-language publications. Obviously, it is not possible to print two editions, so they are
printing the Ukrainian edition only.”</span></i><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">*<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">This story about the book purges in Ukraine connects in a longer historical perspective with Amanda Laugesen’s book <i>Taking Books
to the World: American Publishers and the Cultural Cold War</i> (2017). However, the interview with the head of the Ukrainian Book Institute highlights a tragic and dangerous cultural decline.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">For post-World War II US “book diplomacy” was not about <i>purging</i> books, but about giving access to American books, often of high
scientific or literary quality, to countries and peoples that were still part of the colonial empires of the European Great powers or that had recently gained independence.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Of course, that project also aimed at counteracting the growing influence of the Soviet Union and at creating goodwill for America. The project was carried out by “Franklin.Inc”, a
militant cultural organization whose activities Laugesen brings to light in her book. But that’s nothing for librarians to complain about. That books may compete with and even fight against each other is not only inevitable but desirable.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">The purging of “100 million books” in Ukraine because they are in Russian or written by Russian authors, on the other hand, is avoidable and should be condemned.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:19.2pt"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Addendum about languages in Ukraine</span></b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">The National Centre for Multicultural Education (NAFO) in Oslo: “The population of Ukraine is composed of several population groups. The largest of these are Ukrainians (77.8%) and
Russians (17.3%). The official language of Ukraine is Ukrainian, which is reported to be the first language of about two-thirds of the population. About one third of the population declare Russian as their first language, regardless of whether they identify
themselves as Ukrainians, Russians or others. There is also a large proportion of Ukrainians who know Russian as one of their foreign languages”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Reuters: “Russian still plays a large role in business, culture and the media. And it is still very widely spoken in many cities, including Kyiv, although the use of Russian has been
increasingly restricted”.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:12.0pt"><b><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Georgia",serif;color:#333333;letter-spacing:-.75pt">Del dette med flere:<o:p></o:p></span></b></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Interesting and disturbing, and thanks for tip about Laugesens “Taking Books to the World.” U.S. book diplomacy targeted not only countries and peoples of former colonial empires,
but also allied countries such as Norway. Francis Stonor Saunders “The Cultural Cold War” (or “Who paid the piper?” as the UK edition is called) is an excellent and readable history of that effort – clandestinely backed by the CIA – to “win hearts and minds”
through cultural diplomacy (an effort by no means exclusive to the U.S., of course).<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Verdana",sans-serif;color:#333333">Thank you so much for this report Ericson and Book<br>
In every conflict you will find people and institutions who call for censorship in special cases or in general<br>
The way further for Ukraine is not to ban fiction books from Russia or in russian but to fight against russian aggression now with the help of Europe and then later to promote ukrainian literature<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><b>Fra:</b> Biblioteknorge <biblioteknorge-bounces@mailman.kunnskapsallmenning.no>
<b>På vegne av </b>Frode Bakken via Biblioteknorge<br>
<b>Sendt:</b> lørdag 5. mars 2022 20:41<br>
<b>Til:</b> frilanders@gmail.com; Biblioteknorge <biblioteknorge@kunnskapsallmenning.no><br>
<b>Emne:</b> SV: Russiske bibliotekarar bryt ingen kontaktar internasjonalt<o:p></o:p></p>
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<b>På vegne av </b>Anders Ericson via Biblioteknorge<br>
<b>Sendt:</b> fredag 4. mars 2022 12:39<br>
<b>Til:</b> Biblioteknorge <<a href="mailto:biblioteknorge@kunnskapsallmenning.no">biblioteknorge@kunnskapsallmenning.no</a>><br>
<b>Emne:</b> Russiske bibliotekarar bryt ingen kontaktar internasjonalt<o:p></o:p></p>
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