Abstract
This chapter illustrates how the ethics of translation was conceived in “socialist” theories of translation, focusing mainly on scholarly publications from Eastern Europe, in particular, the Soviet Union and the German Democratic Republic. Socialist translation theories are contextualized in their historical and political contexts which determined the emergence of a socialist translation ethics. The chapter then discusses some core issues and topics, in particular Marxism/Leninism as the basis of translation theory, the profile of a socialist translator/interpreter, and the consequences of this particular view of translation ethics for translator training and translation practice.
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