Title Tamizdat : contraband Russian literature in the Cold War era / Yasha Klots

Published Ithaca [New York] : Northern Illinois University Press, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xi, 315 pages) : illustrations Series Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies. Contents Introduction: Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution -- Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at Home and Abroad -- Anna Akhmatova's Requiem and the Thaw : A View from Abroad -- Lydia Chukovskaia's Sofia Petrovna and Going Under : Fictionalizing Stalin's Purges -- Varlam Shalamov's Kolyma Tales : The Gulag in Search of a Genre -- Epilogue: The Tamizdat Project of Abram Tertz Summary "This book is devoted to the history of literary exchanges between publishers, critics, and readers in the West with authors in Russia during the Cold War. Tamizdat are manuscripts rejected, censored, or never submitted for publication at home but smuggled through various channels out of the country and printed elsewhere with or without their authors' knowledge or consent."-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 24, 2023) Subject Russian literature -- Foreign countries -- 20th century -- History and criticism Prohibited books -- Soviet Union Underground literature -- Soviet Union -- History and criticism Russian literature -- Publishing -- Foreign countries -- History -- 20th century LITERARY CRITICISM / Russian & Former Soviet Union. Prohibited books Russian literature -- Foreign countries Underground literature Literature: history & criticism. Literature. Soviet Union Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. History Form Electronic book LC no. 2022036249 ISBN 9781501768989 1501768980 9781501768965 1501768964 9781501768972 1501768972

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