To celebrate the 102th birthday of the guitar poet, playwright and dissident Alexander Galich (October 19, 1918 - December 15, 1977), you are cordially invited to our next Tamizdat Project Lab, which will be devoted to the first publications and reception of his works abroad, in tamizdat. We will focus on questions of the author's control over his manuscripts and recordings as they circulated in Russia before being smuggled out of the country and published elsewhere, as well as on their reception and interpretation by the Russian emigre and Western communities throughout the sixties and seventies. We will be working with a variety of both archival and print sources, including editorial correspondence, reviews, diary entries, and memoirs, typing and translating them into English or Russian and thus collectively contributing to Tamizdat Project.
The event will be conducted online via Zoom (please RSVP to receive the link). Tamizdat Project Labs are limited to 25 participants. They are designed as hands-on workshops, so please be ready to use your own computer. NB: knowledge of Russian is NOT required. If you are unable to attend but would still like to volunteer for Tamizdat Project, please click here or email your application to tamizdatproject@gmail.com.
Tamizdat Project is a virtual environment that explores the patters of circulation, first publications and reception of contraband literary manuscripts from the former USSR in the West during the Cold War. It is an online archive of documents that deals with how and why masterpieces of Russian literature first appeared abroad long before they could see the light of day in Russia, already during or after Perestroika.