Table of contents : Contents Acknowledgments Note on Transliteration and Translation Introduction: Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution 1. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich at Home and Abroad 2. Anna Akhmatova’s Requiem and the Thaw: A View from Abroad 3. Lydia Chukovskaia’s Sofia Petrovna and Going Under: Fictionalizing Stalin’s Purges 4. Varlam Shalamov’s Kolyma Tales: The Gulag in Search of a Genre Epilogue: The Tamizdat Project of Abram Tertz Notes Bibliography Index