Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media During and After Socialism
Oxford; New York: Berghahn (2015), xiii, 366 pp.
Contains 6 illustr, bibliogr. pp. 339-345, index
Series: Studies in Contemporary European History, 13
ISBN 978-1-78238-918-7 (print); 978-0-85745-586-4 (ebook)
Signature commbox: 400:10-Politics 2015
"In many ways what is identified today as "cultural globalization" in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat ("do-it-yourself" underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War, as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products instigated and sustained by these practices. By expanding the definitions of samizdat and tamizdat from explicitly political, print publications to include other forms and genres, this volume investigates the wider cultural sphere of alternative and semi-official texts, broadcast media, reproductions of visual art and music, and, in the post-1989 period, new media. The underground circulation of uncensored texts in the Cold War era serves as a useful foundation for comparison when looking at current examples of censorship, independent media and the use of new media in countries like China, Iran, and the former Yugoslavia." (Book cover)
Introduction: Samizdat and Tamizdat / Friederike Kind-Kovács and Jessie Labov, 1
I. PRODUCING AND CIRCULATING SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT BEFORE 1989
1 Ardis Facsimile and Reprint Editions: Giving Back Russian Literature / Ann Komaromi, 27
2 The Baltic Connection: Transnational Samizdat Networks between Émigrés in Sweden and the Democratic Opposition in Poland / Fredrik Lars Stöcker, 51
3 Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as the "Echo Chamber" of Tamizdat / Friederike Kind-Kovács, 70
4 Contact Beyond Borders and Historical Problems: Kultura, Russian Emigration and the Polish Opposition / Karolina Ziolo-Puzuk, 92
II. DIFFUSING NON-CONFORMIST IDEAS THROUGH SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT BEFORE 1989
5 "Free Conversations in an Occupied Country:" Cultural Transfer, Social Networking and Political Dissent in Romanian Tamizdat / Cristina Petrescu, 107
6 The Danger of Over-Interpreting Dissident Writing in the West: Communist Terror in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968 / Muriel Blaive, 137
7 Renaissance or Reconstruction? Intellectual Transfer of Civil Society Discourses Between Eastern and Western Europe / Agnes Arndt, 156
III. TRANSFORMING MODES AND PRACTICES OF ALTERNATIVE CULTURE
8 The Bards of Magnitizdat: An Aesthetic Political History of Russian Underground Recordings / Brian A. Horne, 175
9 Writing about Apparently Non-existent Art: the Tamizdat Journal A-Ja and Russian Unofficial Arts in the 1970s-1980s / Valentina Parisi, 190
10 "Video Knows No Borders": Samizdat Television and the Unofficial Public Sphere in "Normalized" Czechoslovakia / Alice Lovejoy, 206
IV. MOVING FROM SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT TO ALTERNATIVE MEDIA TODAY
11 Postprintium? Digital literary samizdat on the Russian Internet / Henrike Schmidt, 221
12 Independent Media, Transnational Borders, and Networks of Resistance: Collaborative Art Radio between Belgrade (Radio B92) and Vienna (ORF) / Daniel Gilfillan, 245
13 "From Wallpapers to Blogs": Samizdat and Internet in China / Martin Hala, 263
14 Reflections on the Revolutions in Europe: Lessons for the Middle East and the Arab Spring / Barbara J. Falk, 281
Afterword: The Legacies of Dissent. Charter 77, the Helsinki Effect, and the Emergence of a European Public Sphere / Jacques Rupnik, 316
I. PRODUCING AND CIRCULATING SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT BEFORE 1989
1 Ardis Facsimile and Reprint Editions: Giving Back Russian Literature / Ann Komaromi, 27
2 The Baltic Connection: Transnational Samizdat Networks between Émigrés in Sweden and the Democratic Opposition in Poland / Fredrik Lars Stöcker, 51
3 Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as the "Echo Chamber" of Tamizdat / Friederike Kind-Kovács, 70
4 Contact Beyond Borders and Historical Problems: Kultura, Russian Emigration and the Polish Opposition / Karolina Ziolo-Puzuk, 92
II. DIFFUSING NON-CONFORMIST IDEAS THROUGH SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT BEFORE 1989
5 "Free Conversations in an Occupied Country:" Cultural Transfer, Social Networking and Political Dissent in Romanian Tamizdat / Cristina Petrescu, 107
6 The Danger of Over-Interpreting Dissident Writing in the West: Communist Terror in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968 / Muriel Blaive, 137
7 Renaissance or Reconstruction? Intellectual Transfer of Civil Society Discourses Between Eastern and Western Europe / Agnes Arndt, 156
III. TRANSFORMING MODES AND PRACTICES OF ALTERNATIVE CULTURE
8 The Bards of Magnitizdat: An Aesthetic Political History of Russian Underground Recordings / Brian A. Horne, 175
9 Writing about Apparently Non-existent Art: the Tamizdat Journal A-Ja and Russian Unofficial Arts in the 1970s-1980s / Valentina Parisi, 190
10 "Video Knows No Borders": Samizdat Television and the Unofficial Public Sphere in "Normalized" Czechoslovakia / Alice Lovejoy, 206
IV. MOVING FROM SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT TO ALTERNATIVE MEDIA TODAY
11 Postprintium? Digital literary samizdat on the Russian Internet / Henrike Schmidt, 221
12 Independent Media, Transnational Borders, and Networks of Resistance: Collaborative Art Radio between Belgrade (Radio B92) and Vienna (ORF) / Daniel Gilfillan, 245
13 "From Wallpapers to Blogs": Samizdat and Internet in China / Martin Hala, 263
14 Reflections on the Revolutions in Europe: Lessons for the Middle East and the Arab Spring / Barbara J. Falk, 281
Afterword: The Legacies of Dissent. Charter 77, the Helsinki Effect, and the Emergence of a European Public Sphere / Jacques Rupnik, 316
