Josephine Von Zitzewitz: 2 books
Poetry and the Leningrad Religious-Philosophical Seminar 1974-1980
Music for a Deaf Age
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
The Religious-Philosophical Seminar, meeting in Leningrad between 1974-1980, was an underground study group where young intellectuals staged debates, read poetry and circulated their own typewritten journal, called ‘37’. The group and its journal offered a platform to poets who subsequently entered...
Dropping out of Socialism
The Creation of Alternative Spheres in the Soviet Bloc
Language: English
Release Date: December 13, 2016
The essays in this collection make up the first study of “dropping out” of late state socialism in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union. From Leningrad intellectuals and Berlin squatters to Bosnian Muslim madrassa students and Romanian yogis, groups and individuals across the Eastern Bloc rejected...