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

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 d...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2013]
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Year of Publication:2013
Language:English
Series:Contemporary European History ; 13
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Physical Description:1 online resource (380 p.)
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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