Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond : : Transnational Media During and After Socialism / / ed. by Friederike Kind-Kovács, Jessie Labov.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Arndt, Agnes,; Blaive, Muriel,; Falk, Barbara J.,; Gilfillan, Daniel,; Hala, Martin,; Horne, Brian A.,; Kind-Kovács, Friederike,; Komaromi, Ann,; Labov, Jessie,; Lovejoy, Alice,; Parisi, Valentina,; Petrescu, Cristina,; Rupnik, Jacques,; Schmidt, Henrike,; Stöcker, Lars Fredrik,; Zioło-Pużuk, Karolina,; indenberg, Thomas,
• HerausgeberIn: Kind-Kovács, Friederike,; Labov, Jessie,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Contemporary European History ; 13
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (380 p.)

In many ways what is identified today as “cultural globalization” in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat (“do-it-yourself” underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War, as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products instigated and sustained by these practices. By expanding the definitions of samizdat and tamizdat from explicitly political print publications to include other forms and genres, this volume investigates the wider cultural sphere of alternative and semi-official texts, broadcast media, reproductions of visual art and music, and, in the post-1989 period, new media. The underground circulation of uncensored texts in the Cold War era serves as a useful foundation for comparison when looking at current examples of censorship, independent media, and the use of new media in countries like China, Iran, and the former Yugoslavia.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- FOREWORD -- Introduction: SAMIZDAT AND TAMIZDAT Entangled Phenomena? -- SECTION I Producing and Circulating Samizdat/Tamizdat Before 1989 -- Chapter 1 ARDIS FACSIMILE AND REPRINT EDITIONS Giving Back Russian Literature -- Chapter 2 THE BALTIC CONNECTION Transnational Samizdat Networks between Émigrés in Sweden and the Democratic Opposition in Poland -- Chapter 3 RADIO FREE EUROPE AND RADIO LIBERTY AS THE “ECHO CHAMBER” OF TAMIZDAT -- Chapter 4 CONTACT BEYOND BORDERS AND HISTORICAL PROBLEMS Kultura, Russian Emigration, and the Polish Opposition -- Section II DIFFUSING NONCONFORMIST IDEAS THROUGH SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT BEFORE 1989 -- Chapter 5 “FREE CONVERSATIONS IN AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY” Cultural Transfer, Social Networking, and Political Dissent in Romanian Tamizdat -- Chapter 6 THE DANGER OF OVER-INTERPRETING DISSIDENT WRITING IN THE WEST Communist Terror in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1968 -- Chapter 7 RENAISSANCE OR RECONSTRUCTION? Intellectual Transfer of Civil Society Discourses Between Eastern and Western Europe -- Section III TRANSFORMING MODES AND PRACTICES OF ALTERNATIVE CULTURE -- Chapter 8 THE BARDS OF MAGNITIZDAT An Aesthetic Political History of Russian Underground Recordings -- Chapter 9 WRITING ABOUT APPARENTLY NONEXISTENT ART The Tamizdat Journal A-Ja and Russian Unofficial Arts in the 1970s and 1980s -- Chapter 10 “VIDEO KNOWS NO BORDERS” Samizdat Television and the Unofficial Public Sphere in “Normalized” Czechoslovakia -- Section IV MOVING FROM SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT TO ALTERNATIVE MEDIA TODAY -- Chapter 11 POSTPRINTIUM? Digital Literary Samizdat on the Russian Internet -- Chapter 12 INDEPENDENT MEDIA, TRANSNATIONAL BORDERS, AND NETWORKS OF RESISTANCE Collaborative Art Radio between Belgrade (Radio B92) and Vienna (ORF) -- Chapter 13 “FROM WALLPAPERS TO BLOGS” Samizdat and Internet in China -- Chapter 14 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTIONS IN EUROPE Lessons for the Middle East and the Arab Spring -- Afterword THE LEGACIES OF DISSENT Charter 77, the Helsinki Effect, and the Emergence of a European Public Space -- Appendix: Ardis Facsimile and Reprint Editions -- SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY -- NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS -- INDEX