Actions for Tamizdat : contraband Russian literature in the Cold War era
Tamizdat : contraband Russian literature in the Cold War era / Yasha Klots
- Author
- Klots, Yasha
- Published
- Ithaca, New York : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023.
- Copyright Date
- ©2023
- Physical Description
- xi, 315 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
- Series
- 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.
- Summary
- "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."--
- Subject(s)
- 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
- Littérature russe—Pays étrangers—20e siècle—Histoire et critique
- Livres prohibés—URSS
- Littérature clandestine—URSS—Histoire et critique
- Littérature russe—Édition—Pays étrangers—Histoire—20e siècle
- Prohibited books
- Russian literature—Foreign countries
- Underground literature
- Soviet Union
- Genre(s)
- ISBN
- 9781501768958 hardcover
1501768956 hardcover
9781501768965 electronic book
9781501768989 electronic book - Bibliography Note
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Endowment Note
- George K. and Anna I. Yonchuk and John G., Sr. and Agnes A. Yonchuk Libraries Endowment in Russian Studies
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