Intro -- 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...
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Intro -- 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