The culture of samizdat : literature and underground networks in the late Soviet Union /

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Author / Creator:von Zitzewitz, Josephine, author.
Imprint:London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2021.
©2021
Description:xi, 248 pages ; 25 cm.
Language:English
Series:Library of modern Russia
Library of modern Russia.
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12411469
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ISBN:9781788313766
1788313763
9781350142633
9781350142640
Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:"By analysing the periodicals produced in late Soviet Leningrad, The Culture of Samizdat makes use of oral and written testimonies to examine the role of Samizdat activists in late Soviet Russia. Crucially, as well as providing new insight into Samizdat texts, the book employs an interdisciplinary theoretical approach which draws on both the sociology of reading and book history. In doing so, von Zitzewitz uncovers the importance of 'middlemen' - including editors, readers and typists - in the Samizdat subculture"--