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Culture and Resistance: Intelligentsia, Dissent, and Samizdat in Soviet Belarus (1968–1988)

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Tatyana Ostrovskaya's book explores dissident ideas and discourses that circulated among the Belarusian Soviet intelligentsia—both in samizdat and uncensored foreign publications, as well as in officially published literature, which was no less important for conveying unconventional images of culture and identity. Covering a wide range of intellectual discourses, the author focuses primarily on the phenomenon and practices of nonconformism and cultural dissent, rather than on specifically political forms of resistance. For the first time in historiography, the ideological legacy and activities of Belarusian intellectuals are examined from a supranational perspective: Ostrovskaya traces their connections with both the Russian and Ukrainian intelligentsia, as well as the Belarusian émigré community. The chronological framework of the study lies between the events of the Prague Spring and its violent suppression, which changed Soviet intellectuals' understanding of themselves and the socialist system, and 1988, when dissent in Belarus grew into an open political movement. Tatyana Ostrovskaya is a historian, PhD, and research fellow at the Herder Institute in Marburg, Germany.
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