Samizdat in the USSR. Texts and fate

The book is dedicated to the history of the Soviet Samizdat of the post -war period and the fate of its authors. It discusses the main varieties of the socio-political samizdat (open letters and appeals, collections of documents, periodicals, materials of trial), classical and poorly studied samizdat texts. In addition, considerable attention is paid to the provincial student literary and journalistic amateur periodicals, until recently, not introduced into the practice of scientific understanding. The work analyzes the concept of "samizdat" and the problem of the classification of samizdat texts.
The book is designed for the widest circle of readers interested in the phenomenon of dissent in Soviet history