Yakov Klots | Spring 2026 Book Talk Series: 'Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era'

Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era is a cultural history of Russian literature outside the iron curtain. The Russian literary diaspora was the indispensable ecosystem for these works. Yet in the post-Stalin years, they also served as a powerful weapon on the cultural fronts of the cold war, laying bare the geographical stylistic, and ideological rifts between two disparate yet inextricably intertwined fields of Russian literature, one at home, the other abroad. --- Event Details: https://my.princeton.edu/rsvp?id=1970202