The “Old” Samizdat Is Dead, Long Live the “New” Samizdat! The Liberated Samizdat Club in the PostCommunist Czechoslovak Book Market

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Loučová, Petra
The “Old” Samizdat Is Dead, Long Live the “New” Samizdat! The Liberated Samizdat Club in the PostCommunist Czechoslovak Book Market.
Forum Historiae. Roč. 14, č. 2 (2020), s. 104-125. ISSN 1337-6861
Grant CEP: GA MŠMT(CZ) LTC18040
Výzkumná infrastruktura: CLB II - 90136
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378068
Klíčová slova: samizdat * Velvet Revolution * book market * post-Communism * Liberated Samizdat Club (Klub osvobozeného samizdatu) * František Kautman
Obor OECD: Specific literatures
Způsob publikování: Open access
http://forumhistoriae.sk/sites/default/files/07-loucova-the-old-samizdat-is-dead-long-live-the-new-samizdat-the-liberated-samizdat-club-in-the-post-communist-czechoslovak-book-market.pdf

In the final issue of the clandestine Lidové noviny from December 1989, Václav Havel bid farewell to the newspaper’s samizdat era in his “Goodbye samizdat” editorial: “Goodbye samizdat Lidové noviny, goodbye conspiracies, goodbye interrogations! Hello printer, hello new readers, hello freedom!” A few months later the press began to report about an extraordinary project by the Liberated Samizdat Club and its promise to literally “return to samizdat” by self-publishing the first editions of previously unpublished books. All the participants were to work for free, and the size of the print run was to be determined by previous subscriptions. This “new” samizdat, as a revolt against the principles of market economics in the era of liberalisation and transformation, is at once a specific chapter in the post-Communist history of the Czechoslovak book market and a contribution to the history of samizdat and its continuities and discontinuities.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0314599