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Tamizdat Project Releases Its First Book: "Pkhentz" by Abram Tertz

Abram Tertz. Pkhentz. Translated by Ainsley Morse, with Kevin Reese. Cover design by Aleksandr Moskovsky and Eva Tamm. New York: Tamizdat Project, 2024. 

ISBN: 979-8-9916623-0-7; printed at G&H Soho, U.S.A.

This iconic Thaw-era tale of loneliness and alienation relates the miseries of a mid-level Soviet accountant—pseudonym Andrei Sushinsky—who is

Call for Volunteers

Tamizdat Project is a public scholarship and charity initiative devoted to the study of banned books from the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War (“tamizdat” means, literally, “published over there,” i.e., abroad). Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022, the project

Call for Application | Undergraduate Students Displaced by War or Repressions

Tamizdat Project Inc. is a public scholarship and charity initiative devoted to the study of banned books from the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War (“tamizdat” means, literally, “published over there,” that is, abroad). Since the full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022,

Press Release | "Manuscripts Don't Burn" Fundraising Campaign to Support Students Affected by War or Persecution

January 29, 2023

Tamizdat Project Inc. is launching a two-month campaign “Manuscripts Don’t Burn” to support undergraduate students forced to leave their home countries either due to Russia’s full-scale war against Ukraine or persecution in Belarus and Russia itself for their anti-war stance.

  • On January 30, 2023, we are opening

Tamizdat: Publishing Russian Literature in the Cold War (International Conference at Book Exhibit)

https://www.reechunter.com/tamizdat-conference.html

Contraband manuscripts from the Soviet Union, published abroad with or without their authors’ knowledge or consent, served as a powerful weapon on the literary fronts of the Cold War. Comprised of texts rejected or never submitted for publication at home but smuggled through various channels and printed elsewhere, tamizdat