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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.

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Yasha Klots is Assistant Professor of Russian at the Hunter College (CUNY), New York. He received his Ph.D. in Russian literature from Yale University in 2011 and M.A. from Boston College in 2005. His research interests include Russian and East European émigré literature and book history, contemporary Russian poetry, linguistic anthropology, bilingualism and literary translation, Gulag narratives, urbanism, the mythology of St. Petersburg and representation of other cities in Russian literature. He is also the director of Tamizdat Project, an online archive of documents on «contraband» Russian literature (1956-1991).

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