Contents
Collection Overview
Administrative Information
Historical Note
Scope and Contents of the Collection
Organization of the Collection
Search Terms
Series 1. Literature
Series 2. Literary Criticism
Series 3. Social and Political Criticism in Current Events
Series 4. Bibliography
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Samizdat Collection, 1955-1983
Finding Aid
Finding aid prepared by SCUA staff.
Encoding funded by the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
2003
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Title:
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Samizdat Collection |
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Dates:
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1955-1983 |
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Abstract:
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In the mid-1970s, the Center for the Study of New Russian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UMass Amherst began collecting the self-published and underground literature of the Soviet Union as a means of documenting social and political dissent in the Communist state.
The Samizdat collection includes writings in several genres -- chiefly fiction, poetry, drama, and literary, social, and political criticism -- in handwritten, photocopied, and printed form, as well as photos, a passport application for Mikhail Baryshnikov, and memorabilia from an American production of one of the plays in the collection.
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Extent:
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12 boxes(6 linear ft.) |
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Language:
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English. |
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Identification:
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MS 404 |
Acquired from Laszlo Tikos, 1975 and later.
See also the Basia Jakubowska-Schlatner Solidarity Collection and the Michael Bernhard Solidarity Collection (MS 575) for Polish underground literature.
Processed by SCUA staff.
Preferred Citation
Cite as: Samizdat Collection (MS 404). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
The collection is open for research.
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With the formal publishing houses and mimeograph and xerographic machines controlled by the state in the Soviet Union, dissident literature circulated in manuscript form, copied over and over by hand or typewriter. Despite these difficulties, samizdat (literally self-published) writing flourished in the 1970s and 1980s and exerted a significant cultural and political influence. Although individual works migrated to the west, often with the exiled writers themselves, very little was ever formally published due to the relatively limited market and low potential for profit.
In the mid-1970s, the Center for the Study of New Russian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UMass Amherst began collecting samizdat to document political and social dissent in the Soviet Union. Laszlo M. Tikos, Head of the Department, established the Center both to create an archive of the New Russian literature and a place for its systematic study.
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Writings by Russian dissident authors in many genres (chiefly fiction, poetry, drama, and literary, social, and political criticism) in handwritten, photocopied, and printed form (printed versions were made in the United States, West Germany, Spain and Argentina), all unpublished in the Soviet Union; also photos, a passport application for Mikhail Baryshnikov, and memorabilia from an American production of one of the plays in the collection.
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This collection is organized into four series:
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Series 1. Literature
Box
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Folder
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1 |
Sveditel' stva Protsessa
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3 |
Deviatyi Etazh Okhraniaiot
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16 |
Skazka o Zhizni shekspira
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25-27 |
S. Minusom Edinitsa
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Box
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Folder
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31 |
Laertid/Primechaniia K Poeme Laertid
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35 |
Toska po Rodine Verny"
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35A |
Performance of Emergency Exit, 1979
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44 |
The Last Trace of Spinoza
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49 |
Dlia chevo miy jivem na svete
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54 |
Sochinenie 73-ovo Goda
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56 |
Punktirnaya Kompozitskiya S Risunkami
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57 |
Povesti dnei voennikh 1941-1945: Rodin
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63 |
Na severnom dontse v nachale Veka
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Box
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Folder
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66-75 |
Tiazhest'
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79 |
Sbornik obsheupotrebitel' novo Vyrazhenii
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Box
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Folder
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84 |
Liricheskie stikhi
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88-90 |
Poems, plays, essays, 1970-1976
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91-92 |
Povesti dnei voennikh 1941-1945
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Box
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Folder
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93-102 |
Ot troiki do samoleta-chast'
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103 |
Ot troiki do samoleta-Epilog
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Box
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Folder
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104 |
Povesti dnei voennikh 1941-1945: Zolushka iz Kieva
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105 |
Inokhodets Misha Baryshnikov. Application for a passport, Mikhail Baryshnikov
1973
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Obereutiana. Moskva, 1974
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108 |
Vozhestvenne stikhi. Moskva, 1972
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109 |
Kniga poslanii. Moskva, 1976
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110 |
Kniga poslanii. Moskva, 1976 B" (play) Moskva, 1970
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111 |
Stikhi (Leningrad, 1978)
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Series 2. Literary Criticism
Box
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Folder
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113 |
Modern Russian Underground Song
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115 |
Vsemipno-prostornaia vechnost, Moskva, 1978
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Series 3. Social and Political Criticism in Current Events
Box
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Folder
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116 |
International Sakharov Hearing. Eng. ed.
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117 |
International Sakharov Hearing. Russian
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118 |
International Sakharov Hearing. Russian na Fone Proshlovo Rossii SSR"
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Box
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Folder
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124 |
Plakun gorod, part 1
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128 |
Aleksei Khvostenko The Case of Leonid Plyushch"
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132 |
Dlia Lektika Sovremennosti
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133 |
Raznyshleniya o polozhenii religii
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134 |
Schlesinger and Kissinger
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Series 4. Bibliography
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Folder
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136 |
Bibliography
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137 |
Polnaya bibliografiya
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138 |
Polynaya bibliografiya c Kitai-skovo
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