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Yakov Klots | Spring 2026 Book Talk Series: 'Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era'

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Tue, Jan 27, 2026

4:30 PM – 6 PM EST (GMT-5)

East Pyne Hall, Room 245

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

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Communism and Beyond. Flyer for Yakov Klots vertical bar Spring 2026 Book Talk Series: ’Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era’
"Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era" is a cultural history of Russian literature outside the iron curtain. The Russian literary diaspora was the indispensable ecosystem for these works. Yet in the post-Stalin years, they also served as a powerful weapon on the cultural fronts of the cold war, laying bare the geographical stylistic, and ideological rifts between two disparate yet inextricably intertwined fields of Russian literature, one at home, the other abroad.

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East Pyne Hall, Room 245

Princeton, NJ 08544, United States

Speakers

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Yakov Klots

Associate Professor

Hunter College, The City University of New York

Yakov "Yasha" Klots is an associate professor of Russian and Slavic Studies in the Department of Classical and Oriental Studies at Hunter CUNY. His research interests include book history, Russian and East European emigre literature and culture, urbanism and literary representation of cityscapes, contemporary Russian poetry, linguistic anthropology, bilingualism and translation and Gulag naratives (particularly Varlam Shalamov). 

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Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies | View More Events
Co-hosted with: Princeton Institute for International & Regional Studies, Program in Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies (OWNER), Slavic Languages & Literatures