"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 a…
Samizdat, the production and circulation of texts outside official channels, was an integral part of life in the final decades of the Soviet Union. But as Josephine von Zitzewitz explains, while much is known about the texts themselves, little is available on the complex communi…
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 -- Con…
"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 a…