To give you just an aside, don't worry about this now.

这只是作为补充不用想太多
In the case of imperial Russia in the late nineteenth century

处于十九世纪晚期的俄国
you had big-time censorship by the police.

警方有眼力的审查制度
In fact, when there were these political trials,

但事实上当有政治审判时
lots of what was said in the courtroom got around as well and

许多在法庭上说过的话却被传播开来
couldn't really be censored in the way that ordinary publications could.

并且不会像普通出版物那样被删减
You had this same sort of effect there.

这里是同样的效果
Let me give you a couple examples.

我举几个例子
They're complicated examples, but don't worry about them.

这些例子很复杂听听就好了
The first would be from this very strange not really heresy,

第一个例子是有关异教派但并不是邪教的
but I guess the Catholic Church considered it a heresy called Jansenism.

尽管天主教认为它是邪教即詹森教派
I remember once coming in to do the equivalent of this lecture

我记得有一次做一个类似的讲座时