Samizdat and Soviet Dissident Publics

Komaromi, Ann

doi:10.5612/slavicreview.71.1.0070

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“…The staging of the process caused a strong reaction in the countries of Western Europe, both at government levels and among civil society activists. About this, Alexander Ginzburg, a well-known Soviet dissident, sentenced to 2 years for publishing the Samizdat journal "Sintaksis" (Johnston 1999;Komaromi 2004Komaromi , 2012, wrote a "White Book on the Siniavskii-Daniėl' case" ( Ginzburg 1967;Skilling 1989;Pieralli 2021). It is no coincidence that already in 1966 a new article 190.1 was added to the Criminal Code of the USSR, according to which up to three years of imprisonment were provided for the dissemination of fabrications discrediting the Soviet state and public order.…”

Section: From a Dissident Intellectual To A Human Rights Movement In ...mentioning

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An Alternative to the Dissident Paradigm and Intersecting Civil Protests in Soviet Armenia: Equal but Different?

Manukyan

2022

J. Pol. Sci.

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The article analyzes alternative dimensions of dissidence and civil protests in Soviet Armenia, which covers the period from the mid-1960s to the mid-1980s, from the Khrushchev Thaw to Gorbachev’s Perestroika. Comparative study of the dissident paradigm has political and civilizational significance. The dissident paradigm is precisely associated with the entire human rights movement, and human rights activists were those who were called dissidents. Thanks to them, ideas of an alternative development of Soviet society and public authorities emerged. At the present stage, the democratic rights of citizens, for which the intelligentsia and human rights activists fought in the 1960s-1980s, are proclaimed and enshrined in the Constitution of the Republic of Armenia. But this does not mean that the issue of human rights has been resolved in reality, since in reality human rights are often violated, first of all, by the public authorities themselves. The experience of the first generation of human rights defenders continues to be of interest to numerous committees and commissions advocating respect for the constitutional and legal rights of citizens. The relevance of the research topic is due to the fact that the processes of formation of a democratic society and the rule of law in modern Armenia put forward the task of effectively protecting human rights and freedoms. Given the fact that the recognition of human rights as a basic value was the result of a long evolution of society, it is important to see that their prerequisite was the struggle of the most socially active people for the possibility of civilizational development.

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An Alternative to the Dissident Paradigm and Intersecting Civil Protests in Soviet Armenia: Equal but Different?

Manukyan

2022

J. Pol. Sci.

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“…How could dissidents justify their own exception? How did they cultivate political, intellectual and artistic spaces of personal autonomy (Komaromi 2012) within the state or following their flight abroad?…”

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The Intimate Life of Dissent Ánthropological Perspectives

Amarasuriya

Kelly

Maunaguru

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“…77 She proposes applying the concept of the public sphere to the dissident era by routing it through the modifications posited by Nancy Fraser. 78 Two of her critiques of Habermas's original formulation of the public sphere are especially useful: the first, also noted by Komaromi, is Fraser's emphasis on what she terms "counterpublics" rather than a unitary public sphere. 79 The second, in Airing Our Dirty Linen in Public my view, is Fraser's assertion-building on the work of Joan Landes and Geoff Eley-that Habermas's is a "masculinist conception" in which public and private (feminine) interests should be kept separate.…”

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“Airing Our Dirty Linen in Public”: Lidiia Chukovskaia, Nadezhda Mandeľshtam, and Competing Visions for a Liberal Soviet Counterpublic

Zaitseva¹

2020

Slavic rev.

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This article contributes to the study of gender and dissidence in the Soviet Union by examining the feud between two significant authors of cultural samizdat and tamizdat—Nadezhda Mandeľshtam and Lidiia Chukovskaia—through an updated feminist lens. It draws on prose unpublished in their lifetimes and presents previously undiscovered writing by Mandeľshtam in order to examine the origins and substance of their feud. I argue that their distinctive modes of authorship date to their relationship with Anna Akhmatova and subsequent differing approaches to her legacy. These approaches reveal their shared conservative attitude regarding gender and moral authority in the nascent liberal Soviet counterpublic as well as their diverging understandings of how the transnational public sphere could help bring about much-needed changes at home. These attitudes shaped how they regarded each other and continue to have salience for our understanding of women's participation in the public sphere in Russia today.

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Samizdat and Soviet Dissident Publics

Cited by 26 publications

References 10 publications

An Alternative to the Dissident Paradigm and Intersecting Civil Protests in Soviet Armenia: Equal but Different?

An Alternative to the Dissident Paradigm and Intersecting Civil Protests in Soviet Armenia: Equal but Different?

The Intimate Life of Dissent Ánthropological Perspectives

“Airing Our Dirty Linen in Public”: Lidiia Chukovskaia, Nadezhda Mandeľshtam, and Competing Visions for a Liberal Soviet Counterpublic

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