Contribution in an anthology

Appeared in: The Oxford handbook of Soviet underground culture

Editor list: Lipovetsky, Mark; Engström, Maria; Glanc, Tomáš; Kukuj, Ilja; Smola, Klavdia

Publication year: 2021

Pages: 141-165

ISBN: 978-0-19-750821-3

eISBN: 978-0-19-750824-4

DOI Link: https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197508213.013.6

Abstract: 

This article elucidates the major events of the late Soviet underground, grouping them by trials (Chertkov’s from 1957, Brodsky’s from 1964, and Sinyavsky and Daniel’s from 1966); repressed exhibitions (the Manège exhibition of 1962 and the “Bulldozer Exhibition” of 1974); and publicity projects (Solzhenitsyn’s open letter to the 4th Congress of the Union of Soviet Writers from 1967 and the almanac Metropol’ in 1978). It argues that an “underground event” emerges through state interference into the sphere of unofficial art and literature, forcing individual members to surface from the underground. While most individual targets of repression were eventually expelled, the diffuse underground communities developed recurrent tactics of resilience. The article rounds off with distilling the patterns of resilience applied in the underground to undo the impact of the repression of the nonvoluntary protagonists of major underground events on others.

Harvard Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2021) Major Events, State Interference, and Resilience: Practices in the Late Soviet Underground, in Lipovetsky, M., Engström, M., Glanc, T., Kukuj, I. and Smola, K. (eds.) The Oxford handbook of Soviet underground culture. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, pp. 141-165. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197508213.013.6

APA Citation style: Uffelmann, D. (2021). Major Events, State Interference, and Resilience: Practices in the Late Soviet Underground. In Lipovetsky, M., Engström, M., Glanc, T., Kukuj, I., & Smola, K. (Eds.), The Oxford handbook of Soviet underground culture (pp. 141-165). Oxford University Press. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780197508213.013.6