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Author Komaromi, Ann, author

Title Soviet samizdat : imagining a new society / Ann Komaromi
Published Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2022
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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Series NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Contents Introduction : Samizdat and Underground Publics in the USSR -- Samizdat and the Historical Self -- Giving Voice to Truth in Samizdat -- Imagining Time in Samizdat -- Spaces of Samizdat Sociality -- Conclusion : Samizdat and the Contradictions of Soviet Modernity
Summary "Traces the emergence and development of samizdat as an uncensored system for making and sharing texts. Based on research of the underground journals, bulletins, art folios and other periodical editions produced in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, this book analyzes the role of samizdat in fostering new forms of imagined community among Soviet citizens"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis soviet dissidence, soviet underground culture, extra-gutenberg texts, samizdat writers, soviet underground press
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on May 04, 2022)
Subject Underground literature -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union
Underground press publications -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union
Underground periodicals -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union
Literature and society -- Soviet Union
HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union.
Literature and society
Politics and government
Underground literature -- Social aspects
Alternativpresse
Literatursoziologie
Untergrundliteratur
SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government -- 1953-1985. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125849
Subject Soviet Union
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2021036773
ISBN 9781501763618
150176361X
9781501763601
1501763601