New Release: "The Oxford Handbook of Soviet Underground Culture" (2024)

The new book in co-editorship of Prof. Dr. Klavdia Smola will be available in April 2024 on the publisher's page of Oxford University Press!

Pre-order now.

Overview

• The first comprehensive English-language volume covering a rich history of Soviet artistic and literary underground: samizdat and beyond
• Describes the late Soviet underground institutions and infrastructures that secured its functioning
• Offers an elaborate map of underground circles and groups, not only in Moscow and Leningrad, but also in Ukraine, Belarus, Baltic countries, Central Asia, and provincial cities of Russian Federation
• Highlights the concept of the lifeworld, which the volume's editors and contributors interpret as an aestheticized style of communication characteristic for a given nonconformist circle's activities, both artistic and cultural

Detailed information can be found on the publisher's website Oxford University Press.