Yasha Klots

Associate Professor, Hunter College

Yasha Klots is an associate professor of Russian literature at Hunter College and the CUNY Graduate Center. His research interests are book history, Russian and East European émigré literature and culture, urbanism, and Gulag narratives (particularly Varlam Shalamov). He is the author of several books, including Tamizdat: Contraband Russian Literature in the Cold War Era (Cornell UP, 2023), and the director of the Tamizdat Project, a public scholarship and charity initiative for the study of banned books from the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc.

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'Manuscripts Don’t Burn': Daria Khitrova in Conversation With Yasha Klots

March 23, 2023

Yasha Klots founded Tamizdat Project, a nonprofit public scholarship and charity initiative devoted to the study of banned books from the former Soviet Union and the Eastern Bloc during the Cold War.

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Tamizdat as a Literary Practice and Political Institution of the Cold War Era

Thursday, February 1, 2024
4:30 to 6pm EST

In person

Yasha Klots will speak about the history of tamizdat as a literary practice and political institution of the Cold War era, as well as about its relevance today, when censorship and political persecution in Putin’s Russia is back, generating another “wave” of emigration from Russia and forcing numerous authors and journalists to publish abroad.

Yasha Klots

Associate Professor, Hunter College

Daria Khitrova

John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Humanities, Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

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