Klots Yasha (Ed.) Tamizdat: Publishing Russian Literature Across Borders

Berlin: Peter Lang GmbH, 2021. — 369 p. — (Wiener Slawistischer Almanach; 86) — ISBN 978-3-631-86639-9 (Print); ISBN 978-3-631-86640-5 (E-PDF)Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Band 86/2021. The book is devoted to «contraband» literature from the USSR that was first published abroad over the Soviet period. The volume explores tamizdat as a literary practice and political institution from a variety of perspectives and situates it in the context of its domestic counterparts: gosizdat and samizdat. The Contributions to the volume range from first-hand accounts, archival explorations, and close readings of the texts vis-à-vis the histories of their first publications and reception abroad, to theoretical articles on tamizdat as «textual embodiment» and transgression. The volume lets world history speak through Russian literary manuscripts on their way from the drawer to publication abroad, and «repatriation» back to Russia in a printed form.ContentsYasha Klots (Hunter College, CUNY). Tamizdat as a Practice and Institution (Introduction)ArticlesOlga Matich (UC Berkeley). Tamizdat: The Spatial Turn, Textual Embodiment, My Personal Stories
Polina Barskova (UC Berkeley). Siege Dialogues during the Cold War: Harrison E . Salisbury’s 900 Days and Its Sources
Yasha Klots (Hunter College, CUNY). Lydia Chukovskaya’s Sofia Petrovna Is Going Under and Abroad
Alexander Jacobson (Princeton University). Tamizdat as Masquerade: The Case of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s Four Gulags
Giuseppina Larocca (University of Florence). Publishing Dissident Soviet Literature in Italy: The Case of Jaca Book (1966–1986)
Ilja Kukuj (Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich). Between Samizdat and Tamizdat: The Case of the Almanac Fioretti
Mark Lipovetsky (Columbia University). A Monument to Russian Modernism: The Ardis Vision of Contemporary Russian LiteratureLiterary InvestigationPaolo Mancosu (UC Berkeley). Pasternak and Costello: What We Know and What We (Still) Don’tFirst-Hand AccountsLewis S. Feuer. Cultural Scholarly Exchange in the Soviet Union in 1963 and How the KGB Tried to Terrorize American Scholars and Suppress Truths (a memoir)
Robin Feuer Miller (Brandeis University). Double Diaries and Layered Memories: Moscow, 1963 (a memoir)
Michael Scammell (Columbia University). Index on Censorship and the Publication of Tamizdat in the 1970s
Pavel Litvinov. Political and Human Rights Tamizdat
Ellendea Proffer Teasley (Ardis Publishers). How Censorship Leads to Tamizdat: Ardis PublishersIndex of names