Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS v
3. ILLUSTRATIONS viii
4. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix
5. FOREWORD xi
6. Introduction: SAMIZDAT AND TAMIZDAT Entangled Phenomena? 1
7. SECTION I Producing and Circulating Samizdat/Tamizdat Before 1989
8. Chapter 1 ARDIS FACSIMILE AND REPRINT EDITIONS Giving Back Russian Literature 27
9. Chapter 2 THE BALTIC CONNECTION Transnational Samizdat Networks between Émigrés in Sweden and the Democratic Opposition in Poland 51
10. Chapter 3 RADIO FREE EUROPE AND RADIO LIBERTY AS THE “ECHO CHAMBER” OF TAMIZDAT 70
11. Chapter 4 CONTACT BEYOND BORDERS AND HISTORICAL PROBLEMS Kultura, Russian Emigration, and the Polish Opposition 92
12. Section II DIFFUSING NONCONFORMIST IDEAS THROUGH SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT BEFORE 1989
13. Chapter 5 “FREE CONVERSATIONS IN AN OCCUPIED COUNTRY” Cultural Transfer, Social Networking, and Political Dissent in Romanian Tamizdat 107
14. Chapter 6 THE DANGER OF OVER-INTERPRETING DISSIDENT WRITING IN THE WEST Communist Terror in Czechoslovakia, 1948–1968 137
15. Chapter 7 RENAISSANCE OR RECONSTRUCTION? Intellectual Transfer of Civil Society Discourses Between Eastern and Western Europe 156
16. Section III TRANSFORMING MODES AND PRACTICES OF ALTERNATIVE CULTURE
17. Chapter 8 THE BARDS OF MAGNITIZDAT An Aesthetic Political History of Russian Underground Recordings 175
18. Chapter 9 WRITING ABOUT APPARENTLY NONEXISTENT ART The Tamizdat Journal A-Ja and Russian Unofficial Arts in the 1970s and 1980s 190
19. Chapter 10 “VIDEO KNOWS NO BORDERS” Samizdat Television and the Unofficial Public Sphere in “Normalized” Czechoslovakia 206
20. Section IV MOVING FROM SAMIZDAT/TAMIZDAT TO ALTERNATIVE MEDIA TODAY
21. Chapter 11 POSTPRINTIUM? Digital Literary Samizdat on the Russian Internet 221
22. Chapter 12 INDEPENDENT MEDIA, TRANSNATIONAL BORDERS, AND NETWORKS OF RESISTANCE Collaborative Art Radio between Belgrade (Radio B92) and Vienna (ORF) 245
23. Chapter 13 “FROM WALLPAPERS TO BLOGS” Samizdat and Internet in China 263
24. Chapter 14 REFLECTIONS ON THE REVOLUTIONS IN EUROPE Lessons for the Middle East and the Arab Spring 281
25. Afterword THE LEGACIES OF DISSENT Charter 77, the Helsinki Effect, and the Emergence of a European Public Space 316
26. Appendix: Ardis Facsimile and Reprint Editions 333
27. SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY 339
28. NOTES ON CONTRIBUTORS 346
29. INDEX 351