Samizdat, tamizdat, and beyond : transnational media during and after socialism /

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Imprint:New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.
©2013
Description:1 online resource (xiii, 366 pages).
Language:English
Series:Studies in contemporary European history ; volume 13
Studies in contemporary European history ; 13.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12348860
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Varying Form of Title:Samizdat, tamizdat & beyond
Other authors / contributors:Kind-Kovács, Friederike, 1978- editor.
Labov, Jessie, editor.
ISBN:9780857455864
0857455869
1299777341
9781299777347
0857455850
9780857455857
9781782389187
1782389180
Notes:Includes bibliographical references (pages 339-345) and index.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (Jstor, viewed on June 18, 2015).
Summary:In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War, as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products instigated and sustained by these practices. By expanding the definitions of samizdat and tamizdat from explicitly political, print publications to include other forms and genres.
Other form:Print version: Samizdat, tamizdat, and beyond. New York : Berghahn Books, 2013 9780857455857