‘Nevertheless, even in the height of stagnation, due to “minor failures of the big machine”, the name of Orwell cropped up from time to time without humiliating epithets. In 1972, I managed to publish an article about the censorship of a number of English and American anti-Utopian works at the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th centuries in the Sverdlovsk magazine Uralsky sledopyt. Among them were the novel by Edward Bellamy Looking Backward...’