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Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era

Posted By: arundhati
Date: 12 Oct 2023 02:08:49
Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era

Yasha Klots, "Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era "
English | ISBN: 1501768956 | 2023 | 330 pages | PDF | 4 MB

Tamizdat offers a new perspective on the history of the Cold War by exploring the story of the contraband manuscripts sent from the USSR to the West. A word that means publishing "over there," tamizdat manuscripts were rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication in the Soviet Union and were smuggled through various channels and printed outside the country, with or without their authors' knowledge. Yasha Klots demonstrates how tamizdat contributed to the formation of the twentieth-century Russian literary canon: the majority of contemporary Russian classics first appeared abroad long before they saw publication in Russia.
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