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