The book is devoted to "contraband" literature from the USSR that was first published abroad over the Soviet period. The volume explores tamizdat as a literary practice and political institution from a variety of perspectives and situates it in the context of its domestic counterparts: gosizdat and samizdat. The Contributions to the volume range from first-hand accounts, archival explorations, and close readings of the texts vis-a-vis the histories of their first publications and reception abroad, to theoretical articles on tamizdat as "textual embodiment" and transgression. The volume lets...