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Soviet Samizdat

Imagining a New Society

By: Ann Komaromi

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Soviet Samizdat traces the emergence and development of samizdat, one of the most significant and distinctive phenomena of the late Soviet era, as an uncensored system for making and sharing texts. Based on extensive research of the underground journals, bulletins, art folios and other periodicals produced in the Soviet Union from the mid-1950s to the mid-1980s, Ann Komaromi analyzes the role of samizdat in fostering new forms of imagined community among Soviet citizens. Dissidence has been dismissed as an elite phenomenon or as insignificant because it had little demonstrable impact on the Soviet regime. Komaromi challenges these views and demonstrates that the kind of imagination about self and community made possible by samizdat could be a powerful social force. She explains why participants in samizdat culture so often sought to divide "political" from "cultural" samizdat. Her study provides a controversial umbrella definition for all forms of samizdat in terms of truth-telling, arguing that the act is experienced as transformative by Soviet authors and readers. This argument will challenge scholars in the field to respond to contentions that go against the grain of both anthropological and postmodern accounts. Komaromi's combination of literary analysis, historical research, and sociological theory makes sense of the phenomenon of samizdat for readers today. Soviet Samizdat shows that samizdat was not simply a tool of opposition to a defunct regime. Instead, samizdat fostered informal communities of knowledge that foreshadowed a similar phenomenon of alternative perspectives challenging the authority of institutions around the world today.

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Cornell University Press

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1501763601

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Soviet Samizdat

Imagining a New Society

By: Ann Komaromi

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Imagining a New Society

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Cornell University Press

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150176361X

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Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence

By: Ann Komaromi

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Samizdat Novels and the Quest for Autonomy in Soviet Dissidence

By: Ann Komaromi

Literature that was self-published and informally circulated in the former Soviet Union in order to evade censorship, in addition to prosecution of its authors, came to be known as samizdat. Vasilii Aksenov, Andrei Bitov, and Venedikt Erofeev were among its most acclaimed practitioners. In her innovative study, Ann Komaromi uses their work to argue for a far more sophisticated understanding of the phenomenon of samizdat, showing how the material circumstances of its creation and dissemination exercised a profound influence on the very idea of dissidence. When a text comes to life as samizdat, it necessarily reconfigures the relationship between author and reader. Using archival research to fully illustrate samizdat’s social and historical context, Komaromi arrives at a more nuanced theoretical position that breaks down the opposition between the autonomous work of art and direct political engagement. The similarities between samizdat and digital culture give her formulation of dissident subjectivity particular contemporary relevance.

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Northwestern University Press

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0810131242

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9780810131248

MEMOIRS OF THE CELEBRATED & BE

By: Ann Baker Carson,M. (Mary) Clarke

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MEMOIRS OF THE CELEBRATED & BE

By: Ann Baker Carson,M. (Mary) Clarke

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

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Wentworth Press

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1373146540

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The History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson,: Widow of the Late Unfortunate Lieutenant Richard Smyth; With a Circumstantial Account of Her Conspirac

By: Ann Baker Carson

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The History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson,: Widow of the Late Unfortunate Lieutenant Richard Smyth; With a Circumstantial Account of Her Conspirac

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Palala Press

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1377871843

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Soviet Samizdat

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MEMOIRS OF THE CELEBRATED & BE

MEMOIRS OF THE CELEBRATED & BE

The History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson,: Widow of the Late Unfortunate Lieutenant Richard Smyth; With a Circumstantial Account of Her Conspirac

The History of the Celebrated Mrs. Ann Carson,: Widow of the Late Unfortunate Lieutenant Richard Smyth; With a Circumstantial Account of Her Conspirac

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