Tamizdat : contraband Russian literature in the Cold War era

Tamizdat : contraband Russian literature in the Cold War era / Yasha Klots.

"This book is devoted to the history of literary exchanges between publishers, critics, and readers in the West with authors in Russia during the Cold War. Tamizdat are manuscripts rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication at home but smuggled through various channels out of the co...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Klots, Yasha (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
Series:NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Russian literature > Foreign countries > 20th century > History and criticism.
Prohibited books > Soviet Union.
Underground literature > Soviet Union > History and criticism.
Russian literature > Publishing > Foreign countries > History > 20th century.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union.
Prohibited books
Russian literature > Foreign countries
Underground literature
Literature: history & criticism.
Literature.
Soviet Union
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution
  • Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at Home and Abroad
  • Anna Akhmatova's Requiem and the Thaw : A View from Abroad
  • Lydia Chukovskaia's Sofia Petrovna and Going Under : Fictionalizing Stalin's Purges
  • Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales : The Gulag in Search of a Genre
  • Epilogue: The Tamizdat Project of Abram Tertz.

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