Samizdat Collection
In the mid-1970s, the Center for the Study of New Russian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UMass Amherst began collecting the self-published and underground literature of the Soviet Union as a means of documenting social and political dissent in the Communist state.
The Samizdat collection includes writings in several genres — chiefly fiction, poetry, drama, and literary, social, and political criticism — in handwritten, photocopied, and printed form, as well as photos, a passport application for Mikhail Baryshnikov, and memorabilia from an American production of one of the plays in the collection.
With the formal publishing houses and mimeograph and xerographic machines controlled by the state in the Soviet Union, dissident literature circulated in manuscript form, copied over and over by hand or typewriter. Despite these difficulties, samizdat (literally self-published) writing flourished in the 1970s and 1980s and exerted a significant cultural and political influence. Although individual works migrated to the west, often with the exiled writers themselves, very little was ever formally published due to the relatively limited market and low potential for profit.
In the mid-1970s, the Center for the Study of New Russian Literature in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at UMass Amherst began collecting samizdat to document political and social dissent in the Soviet Union. Laszlo M. Tikos, Head of the Department, established the Center both to create an archive of the New Russian literature and a place for its systematic study.
Writings by Russian dissident authors in many genres (chiefly fiction, poetry, drama, and literary, social, and political criticism) in handwritten, photocopied, and printed form (printed versions were made in the United States, West Germany, Spain and Argentina), all unpublished in the Soviet Union; also photos, a passport application for Mikhail Baryshnikov, and memorabilia from an American production of one of the plays in the collection.
This collection is organized into four series:
The collection is open for research.
Cite as: Samizdat Collection (MS 404). Special Collections and University Archives, W.E.B. Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts Amherst.
Acquired from Laszlo Tikos, 1975 and later.
Processed by SCUA staff.
See also the Basia Jakubowska-Schlatner Solidarity Collection and the Michael Bernhard Solidarity Collection (MS 575) for Polish underground literature.
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Series 1. Literature
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Dremluga, Vladimir, Sveditel’ stva Protsessa
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Box 1:1
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Dremluga, Vladimir, Sviatyna
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Box 1:2
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Dremluga, Vladimir, Deviatyi Etazh Okhraniaiot
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Box 1:3
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Gornyi, Vladimir, Palachi evo Master
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Box 1:4-13
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Ingul, V., V Puti
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Box 1:14
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Friazino, Dorogatsev Iz, Shakespeare Sonnets
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Box 1:15
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Friazino, Dorogatsev Iz, Skazka o Zhizni shekspira
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Box 1:16
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Bokshtein, Ilya, Stikhi
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Box 1:17
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Alnikin, Nikolai, Rifmovannye Konchiki
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Box 1:18
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Alnikin, Nikolai, Spolokh
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Box 1:19
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Aranzon, Leonid, Poems
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Box 1:20
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Khalif, Lev, Tse, de, el
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Box 1:21-24
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Kholin, I., S. Minusom Edinitsa
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Box 1:25-27
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Khudiakov, Genrikh, Koktesel’
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Box 1:28
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Khudiakov, Genrikh, Komentarii/Avtograf
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Box 1:29
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Khudiakov, Genrikh, Laertid
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Box 1:30
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Khudiakov, Genrikh, Laertid/Primechaniia K Poeme Laertid
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Box 2:31
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Khudiakov, Genrikh, Russian/English poems
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Box 2:32
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Khudiakov, Genrikh, Ss Tt Ii KHkh
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Box 2:33
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Khudiakov, Genrikh, Toska po Rodine
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Box 2:34
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Khvostenko, A., Toska po Rodine Verny”
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Box 2:35
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Khvostenko, A., Performance of Emergency Exit, 1979
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Box 2:35A
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Kovshin, V., Kolba Sveta
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Box 2:36
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Kuklovskaia, Elizaveta, Byloe
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Box 2:37
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Kuklovskaia, Elizaveta, Metel’
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Box 2:38
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Kuklovskaia, Elizaveta, Skazki
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Box 2:39
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Kuklovskaia, Elizaveta, Skauty
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Box 2:40
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Limonov, Eduard, Avtoportret S Elenoi
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Box 2:41
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Limonov, Eduard, Various poems
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Box 2:42
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Malov, W., Ot Kaaina K Hristu
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Box 2:43
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Mamleev, Yuri, The Last Trace of Spinoza
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Box 2:44
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Mamleev, Yuri, Kovor-Samolet
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Box 2:45
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Mamleev, Yuri, Village Life
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Box 2:46
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Mamleev, Yuri, Vstuplenie/Vobok
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Box 2:47
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Mamleev, Yuri, Zhenikh
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Box 2:48
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Mariia, Dlia chevo miy jivem na svete
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Box 2:49
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Miatlev, I., Ukrainskaia Epopeia
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Box 2:50
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Miroliubov, Yuri, Babushkin Sunduk
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Box 2:51
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Miroliubov, Yuri, Rodina Mat’
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Box 2:52
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Moll, Viktor, Virshi
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Box 3:53
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Monastyrskii, Andrei, Sochinenie 73-ovo Goda
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Box 3:54
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Monastyrskii, Andrei, Stalin-stixotvoreniya
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Box 3:55
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Monastyrskii, Andrei, Punktirnaya Kompozitskiya S Risunkami
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Box 3:56
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Paley, Peter N., Povesti dnei voennikh 1941-1945: Rodin
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Box 3:57
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Perelshin, Valerii, Poema Bez Predmata
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Box 3:58-61
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Romer, Victoria, Poems
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Box 3:62
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Savinskii, Viktor, Na severnom dontse v nachale Veka
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Box 3:63
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Savinskii, Viktor, Pobezhdaiushchaia
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Box 3:64
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Shchapova, Elena, Stikhotvoreniia
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Box 3:65
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Shchetinskii, Tiazhest’
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Box 4:66-75
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Volokhonskii, Anri, Zapasnoi vykhod
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Box 4:76-78
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Staritsky, Maria, Sbornik obsheupotrebitel’ novo Vyrazhenii
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Box 4:79
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Bakhchanian, Vagrich, 1968-1974
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Box 4:80
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Tetenov, Nikolai, Pamphlets
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Box 4:81
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Altman, Moses, The Undying Swan
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Box 4:82
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Miroliubov, Yuri, Prabkino uchenie
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Box 4:83
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Kuklouskaia, Elizaveta, Liricheskie stikhi
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Box 5:84
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Saptir, Genrikh, Stikhi raznikh let,
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Box 5:85
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Saptir, Genrikh, Molchanie
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Box 5:86
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Erofeev, Benedikt, Moskua-petushki
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Box 5:87
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Bodak, Rostislav, Poems, plays, essays, 1970-1976
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Box 5:88-90
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Paley, Peter N., Povesti dnei voennikh 1941-1945
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Box 5:91-92
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Gresserov, P.S., Ot troiki do samoleta-chast’
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Box 6-7:93-102
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Gresserov, P.S., Ot troiki do samoleta-Epilog
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Box 6-7:103
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Paley, Peter N., Povesti dnei voennikh 1941-1945: Zolushka iz Kieva
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Box 8:104
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Len, Vladislav. , Inokhodets Misha Baryshnikov. Application for a passport, Mikhail Baryshnikov
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1973
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Box 8:105
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Len, Vladislav, Avtobiografiia
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Box 8:106
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Len, Vladislav, Obereutiana. Moskva, 1974
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Box 8:107
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Len, Vladislav, Vozhestvenne stikhi. Moskva, 1972
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Box 8:108
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Len, Vladislav, Kniga poslanii. Moskva, 1976
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Box 8:109
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Len, Vladislav, Kniga poslanii. Moskva, 1976 B” (play) Moskva, 1970
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Box 8:110
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Mamonova, Tatyana, Stikhi (Leningrad, 1978)
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Box 8:111
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Mamonova, Tatyana, (Stikhi, 1977)
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Box 8:112
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Chasy; Almanakh, (microfilm strips)
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Box 8:112a
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Series 2. Literary Criticism
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Smith, G.S., Modern Russian Underground Song
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Box 9:113
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Erofeev, Benedikt, Vasilii rozanov
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Box 9:114
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Korn, Aleksandr, Vsemipno-prostornaia vechnost, Moskva, 1978
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Box 9:115
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Series 3. Social and Political Criticism in Current Events
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Zwarun, A.A., International Sakharov Hearing. Eng. ed.
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Box 9:116
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Zwarun, A.A., International Sakharov Hearing. Russian
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Box 9:117
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Belonol’skii, A., International Sakharov Hearing. Russian na Fone Proshlovo Rossii SSR”
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Box 9:118
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Cahiers du samizdat
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Box 9:119
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Contemporary soviet law
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Box 9:120
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Evangel’ skoe slovo
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Box 9:121
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Index on censorship, 3/74
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Box 9:122
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Suslov, Aleksandr, Plakun gorod, part 1
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Box 10:124
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Suslov, Aleksandr, Plakun gorod, part 2
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Box 10:125
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Suslov, Aleksandr, Rasskazy
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Box 10:126
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Committee to Help, Aleksei Khvostenko
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Box 10:127
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Marko, Kurt, Aleksei Khvostenko The Case of Leonid Plyushch”
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Box 10:128
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Osteuropa, 10/75
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Box 10:129
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Otradin, N., Poputnye Zametki
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Box 10:130
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Pyatnitskii, V., Svoboda est’ Svoboda
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Box 10:131
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Savinskii, Viktor, Dlia Lektika Sovremennosti
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Box 10:132
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Savinskii, Viktor, Raznyshleniya o polozhenii religii
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Box 10:133
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Solzhenitsyn, Aleksandr, Schlesinger and Kissinger
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Box 10:134
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Wischnewskaja, Julia, V.N. Voinovich
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Box 10:135
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Series 4. Bibliography
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Miroliubov, U.P., Bibliography
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Box 10:136
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Pereleshin, Valerii, Polnaya bibliografiya
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Box 10:137
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Pereleshin, Valerii, Polynaya bibliografiya c Kitai-skovo
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Box 10:138
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