2. Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem and the Thaw: A View from Abroad

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Note on Transliteration and Translation xi
5. Introduction: Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution 1
6. 1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at Home and Abroad 34
7. 2. Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem and the Thaw: A View from Abroad 68
8. 3. Lydia Chukovskaia’s Sofia Petrovna and Going Under: Fictionalizing Stalin’s Purges 106
9. 4. Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales: The Gulag in Search of a Genre 149
10. Epilogue: The Tamizdat Project of Abram Tertz 186
11. Notes 203
12. Bibliography 277
13. Index 303