Tamizdat : : Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era / / Yasha Klots.

Tamizdat tells the old story of the Cold War from a new perspective: through the history of the contraband manuscripts sent from the former USSR to the West. A word that means publishing "over there," tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication in the S...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Cornell University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2023]
©2023
Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
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Physical Description:1 online resource (330 p.) :; 15 b&w halftones
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Note on Transliteration and Translation
  • Introduction: Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution
  • 1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at Home and Abroad
  • 2. Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem and the Thaw: A View from Abroad
  • 3. Lydia Chukovskaia’s Sofia Petrovna and Going Under: Fictionalizing Stalin’s Purges
  • 4. Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales: The Gulag in Search of a Genre
  • Epilogue: The Tamizdat Project of Abram Tertz
  • Notes
  • Bibliography
  • Index