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Informationen zum Autor Friederike Kind-KovA¡cs is Assistant Professor in the Department of Southeast and East European History at Regensburg University. Klappentext 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. "Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond offers a long awaited rethinking of dissent at the grassroots level. Looking primarily but not exclusively to the Eastern Bloc, this volume skillfully stretches our understanding of samizdat to incorporate visual art, music, video, and the web. The editors bring together seemingly disparate samizdat 'texts' by placing them within the larger context of transnationalism, gender, and mass media. In so doing, they remind us that dissent is, first and foremost, a creative human endeavor; one that not only has a history but also a future." * Paulina Bren, Vassar College "The information and insights contained in this volume fill the gap in our knowledge about the vitality, diversity, and ongoing relevance of samizdat/tamizdat and alternative media not only in the post-Communist states represented here, but in emerging democracies in other regions of the world, e.g. the Middle East and Asia." * Michael Long, Baylor University Zusammenfassung 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 that was instigated and sustained by these practices. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Illustrations Foreword Acknowledgements Introduction Section I: Producing and Circulating Samizdat/Tamizdat Before 1989 Chapter 1. Ardis Facsimile and Reprint Editions: Giving Back Russian Literature Ann Komaromi Chapter 2. The Baltic Connection: Transnational Networks of Resistance after 1976 Fredrik Lars Stöcker Chapter 3. Radio Free Europe and Radio Liberty as the 'Echo Chamber' of Tamizdat Friederike Kind-Kovács Chapter 4. Contact Beyond Borders and Historical Problems: Kultura, Russian Emigration and the Polish Opposition Karolina Ziolo-Puzuk Section II: Diffusing Non-Conformist Ideas Through Samizdat/Tamizdat Before 1989 Chapter 5. "Free Conversations in an Occupied Country:" Cultural Transfer, Social Networking and Political Dissent in Romanian Tamizdat Cristina Petrescu Chapter 6. The Danger of Over-Interpreting Dissident Writing in the West: Communist Terror in Czechoslovakia, 1948-1968 Muriel Blaive Chapter 7. Renaissance or Reconstruction? Intellectual Transfer of Civil Society Discourses Between Eastern and Western Europe Agnes Arndt Section III: Transforming Modes and Practices of Alternative Culture Chapter 8. The Bards of Magnitizdat: An Aesthetic Political History of Russian Underground Recordings Brian A. Horne Chapter 9. Writing about apparently non-existent art: the tamizdat journal A-...
