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The Culture of Samizdat - Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union (Paperback)
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The Culture of Samizdat - Literature and Underground Networks in the Late Soviet Union (Paperback)
Series: Library of Modern Russia
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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 communities and cultures that existed around them due to
their necessarily secretive, and sometimes dissident, nature. By
analysing the behaviours of different actors involved in Samizdat -
readers, typists, librarians and the editors of periodicals in
1970s Leningrad, The Culture of Samizdat fills this lacuna in
Soviet history scholarship. Crucially, as well as providing new
insight into Samizdat texts, the book makes use of oral and written
testimonies to examine the role of Samizdat activists and employs
an interdisciplinary theoretical approach drawing on both the
sociology of reading and book history. In doing so, von Zitzewitz
uncovers the importance of 'middlemen' for Samizdat culture.
Diligently researched and engagingly written, this book will be of
great value to scholars of Soviet cultural history and Russian
literary studies alike.
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