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Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War – Klotz Jacob – New Literary Review – 2024 – ISBN 978-5-4448-2239-5

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Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War
19.99 €
How did banned manuscripts get from behind the Iron Curtain abroad, how were they printed and read in exile, what did the authors themselves know and think about it?

Yakov Klotz's book examines the first Western editions and foreign reception of texts about the Gulag and Stalinism in the 1950s-1980s. Tamizdat, as a literary practice and political institution of the Cold War era, represented an alternative field of cultural production opposed to the Soviet regime and the dogmas of socialist realism, but not without its own hierarchy, ideology, and even censorship.

The narrative centers on the history of literary connections that were established, despite the Iron Curtain, between publishers, critics, readers in the West and authors in the USSR.
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