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Author:

von Zitzewitz, Josephine, author.

Title:

The culture of samizdat : literature and underground networks in the late Soviet Union / Josephine von Zitzewitz.

Publisher:

Bloomsbury Academic,

Copyright Date:

2021

Description:

xi, 248 pages ; 25 cm.

Subject:

Underground literature--Soviet Union--History and criticism.
Underground press publications--Soviet Union--History.
Underground literature--History.--Soviet Union--History.
Dissenters--Soviet Union.
Books and reading--Soviet Union.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction -- Samizdat: A Culture of Readers and Networks -- Readers: An Online Survey for Samizdat Readers -- Manufacturists: Samizdat Typists -- Collectors: Samizdat Libraries -- Patrons: Samizdat Journal Editors -- Institutions: Literary Samizdat and Official Culture -- Conclusion.

Summary:

"By analysing the periodicals produced in late Soviet Leningrad, The Culture of Samizdat makes use of oral and written testimonies to examine the role of Samizdat activists in late Soviet Russia. Crucially, as well as providing new insight into Samizdat texts, the book employs an interdisciplinary theoretical approach which draws on both the sociology of reading and book history. In doing so, von Zitzewitz uncovers the importance of 'middlemen' - including editors, readers and typists - in the Samizdat subculture"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Library of modern Russia

ISBN:

1788313763
9781788313766

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1132243898

LCCN:

2020029956

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)