Tamizdat : Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era / Yasha Klots.
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TextSeries: Book collections on Project MUSEPublisher: Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023Manufacturer: Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2023Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (330 pages)Content type: - text
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- online resource
- 9781501768989
- Underground literature
- Russian literature -- Foreign countries
- Prohibited books
- Russian literature -- Publishing -- Foreign countries -- History -- 20th century
- Underground literature -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism
- Prohibited books -- Soviet Union
- Russian literature -- Foreign countries -- 20th century -- History and criticism
- Soviet Union
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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"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 country and printed elsewhere with or without their authors' knowledge or consent."-- Provided by publisher.
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