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Cool People Who Did Cool Stuff

Part One: Samizdat: How to Self-Publish During a Dictatorship

Mar 31, 2025
46:51

Margaret talks to Katy Stoll about how the Soviet people evaded censors and kept poetry, literature, and political critique alive.

The Material Existence of Soviet Samizdat, Ann Komaromi
https://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/04/books/04solzhenitsyn.html

HG Skilling, Samizdat and an Indepedent Society in Central and Eastern Europe

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/nikolai-gumilev

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/anna-akhmatova

https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poets/osip-mandelstam

https://libcom.org/article/1962-novocherkassk-tragedy

https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-349-09284-0_1

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