Wiener Slawistischer Almanach Band 86/2021

Tamizdat as a Practice and Institution (Introduction) (Yasha Klots) - Tamizdat: The Spatial Turn, Textual Embodiment, My Personal Stories (Olga Matich) - Siege Dialogues during the Cold War: Harrison E. Salisbury's 900 Days and Its Sources (Polina Barskova) - Lydia Chukovskaya's Sofia Petrovna Is Going Under and Abroad (Yasha Klots) - Tamizdat as Masquerade: The Case of Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's Four Gulags (Alexander Jacobson) - Publishing Dissident Soviet Literature in Italy: The Case of Jaca Book (1966-1986) (Giuseppina Larocca) - Between Samizdat and Tamizdat: The Case of the Almanac Fioretti (Ilja Kukuj) - A Monument to Russian Modernism: The Ardis Vision of Contemporary Russian Literature (Mark Lipovetsky) - Pasternak and Costello: What We Know and What We (Still) Don't (Paolo Mancosu) - Cultural Scholarly Exchange in the Soviet Union in 1963 and How the KGB Tried to Terrorize American Scholars and Suppress Truths (a memoir) (Lewis S. Feuer) - Double Diaries and Layered Memories: Moscow, 1963 (a memoir) (Robin Feuer Miller) - Index on Censorship and the Publication of Tamizdat in the 1970s (Michael Scammell) - Political and Human Rights Tamizdat (Pavel Litvinov) - How Censorship Leads to Tamizdat: Ardis Publishers (Ellendea Proffer Teasley)

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).