Samizdat, tamizdat, and beyond : transnational media during and after socialism / edited by Friederike Kind-Kovács and Jessie Labov.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Kind-Kovács, Friederike, 1978- editor.

Labov, Jessie, editor.

Series:

Studies in contemporary European history ; 13.

Studies in contemporary European history ; volume 13

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Mass media--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern--History--20th century.

Mass media.

Underground literature--Europe, Eastern--History and criticism.

Underground literature.

Mass media and culture--Europe, Eastern.

Mass media and culture.

Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.

Post-communism.

Mass media--Political aspects.

History.

Eastern Europe.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 366 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First paperback edition.

Other Title:

Samizdat, tamizdat & beyond

Place of Publication:

New York : Berghahn Books, 2015.

Contents:

Introduction

Producing and circulating samizdat/tamizdat before 1989. Ardis facsimile and reprint editions: giving back Russian literature / Ann Komaromi

The Baltic connection: transnational samizdat networks between émigrés in Sweden and the democratic opposition in Poland / Lars Fredrik Stöcker

Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as the "echo chamber" of tamizdat / Friederike Kind-Kovács

Contact beyond borders and historical problems: kultura, Russian emigration and the Polish opposition / Karolina Ziolo-Puzuk

Diffusing non-conformist ideas through samizdat/tamizdat before 1989. "Free conversations in an occupied country": cultural transfer, social networking and political dissent in Romanian tamizdat / Cristina Petrescu

The danger of over-interpreting dissident writing in the West: Communist terror in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968 / Muriel Blaive

Renaissance or reconstruction? intellectual transfer of civil society discourses between Eastern and Western Europe / Agnes Arndt

Transforming modes and practices of alternative culture. The bards of Magnitizdat: an aesthetic political history of Russian underground recordings / Brian A. Horne

Writing about apparently non-existent art: the tamizdat journal A-Ja and Russian unofficial arts in the 1970s-1980s / Valentina Parisi

"Video knows no borders": samizdat television and the unofficial public sphere in "normalized" Czechoslovakia / Alice Lovejoy

Moving from samizdat/tamizdat to alternative media today. Postprintium? digital literary samizdat on the Russian Internet / Henrike Schmidt

Independent media, transnational borders, and networks of resistance: collaborative art radio between Belgrade (Radio B92) and Vienna (ORF) / Daniel Gilfillan

"From wallpapers to blogs": samizdat and Internet in China / Martin Hala

Reflections on the revolutions in Europe: lessons for the Middle East and the Arab Spring / Barbara J. Falk.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [339]-345) and index.

ISBN:

9781782389187

1782389180

0857455850

9780857455857

OCLC:

896862114