Josephine von Zitzewitz is Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in Russian Literature at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway in Tromso, Norway. She is the author of Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar, 1976 - 1980 (2016).

The Culture of Samizdat is the book that every student and scholar of modern Russian culture must have in her or his library. Josephine von Zitzewitz has written a concise, energetic and highly informative survey of the late Soviet literary underground. Based on the author’s original interviews with actual participants of the samizdat movement (with a special attention paid to such underappreciated heroes as typists), the book blends the analysis of various aspects of samizdat production and dissemination with deep insights into the functioning of nonconformist literary groups and circles that samizdat cemented.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsNote on the TextIntroduction1. Samizdat: A Culture of Readers and Networks2. Readers: An Online Survey for Samizdat Readers3. Manufacturers: Samizdat Typists 4. Collectors: Samizdat Libraries5. Patrons: Samizdat Journal Editors6. Institutions: Literary Samizdat and Official CultureConclusionBibliographyIndex

Josephine von Zitzewitz is Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in Russian Literature at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway in Tromso, Norway. She is the author of Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar, 1976 - 1980 (2016).

The Culture of Samizdat is the book that every student and scholar of modern Russian culture must have in her or his library. Josephine von Zitzewitz has written a concise, energetic and highly informative survey of the late Soviet literary underground. Based on the author’s original interviews with actual participants of the samizdat movement (with a special attention paid to such underappreciated heroes as typists), the book blends the analysis of various aspects of samizdat production and dissemination with deep insights into the functioning of nonconformist literary groups and circles that samizdat cemented.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsNote on the TextIntroduction1. Samizdat: A Culture of Readers and Networks2. Readers: An Online Survey for Samizdat Readers3. Manufacturers: Samizdat Typists 4. Collectors: Samizdat Libraries5. Patrons: Samizdat Journal Editors6. Institutions: Literary Samizdat and Official CultureConclusionBibliographyIndex

Josephine von Zitzewitz is Marie Sklodowska Curie Fellow in Russian Literature at UiT - The Arctic University of Norway in Tromso, Norway. She is the author of Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar, 1976 - 1980 (2016).

The Culture of Samizdat is the book that every student and scholar of modern Russian culture must have in her or his library. Josephine von Zitzewitz has written a concise, energetic and highly informative survey of the late Soviet literary underground. Based on the author’s original interviews with actual participants of the samizdat movement (with a special attention paid to such underappreciated heroes as typists), the book blends the analysis of various aspects of samizdat production and dissemination with deep insights into the functioning of nonconformist literary groups and circles that samizdat cemented.

• List of FiguresList of TablesAcknowledgementsNote on the TextIntroduction1. Samizdat: A Culture of Readers and Networks2. Readers: An Online Survey for Samizdat Readers3. Manufacturers: Samizdat Typists 4. Collectors: Samizdat Libraries5. Patrons: Samizdat Journal Editors6. Institutions: Literary Samizdat and Official CultureConclusionBibliographyIndex