Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Writing the Free Self: Cultural Autonomy and the Dissident Subject in the Late Soviet Era
Chapter One: Literature and the Field of Dissidence
Chapter Two: Aksenov’s The Burn: Searing the Hearts of Men
Chapter Three: Bitov’s Pushkin House: Deconstructing the Late Soviet Subject
Chapter Four: On the Knife’s Edge: Venichka’s Performance in Moscow Stations
Chapter Five: Samizdat and the Extra-Gutenberg Condition
Conclusion: Soviet Dissidence and Critical Subjectivity in an Extra-Gutenberg Age
Notes
Bibliography
Index