Russian/Eurasian Studies Program Presents

TAMIZDAT Workshop: The Soviet and East European Adventures of Orwell’s Animal Farm

Banned by the Soviet authorities, George Orwell’s “fairytale” was nevertheless smuggled into the USSR and the Eastern Bloc since the late 1940s. Russian and East European émigrés and refugees in the West could not help noticing immediate parallels between Orwell’s dystopian worlds and the dark reality of “developed Socialism,” as well as Holodomor and other atrocities in their home countries under Stalin. The TAMIZDAT project, founded by Associate Professor Yasha Klots (Hunter College CUNY), studies literary destinies, market presences, and socio-political impacts of banned books from the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. The workshop on the first translations and publications of Orwell’s Animal Farm in East-European languages addresses both the Orwellian folkloric metaphors and the notion of “TAMIZDAT,” or “published there (abroad),” in the political and cultural context of the Cold War.

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For more information, call 845-758-6822, or e-mail [email protected].

Time: 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm EST/GMT-5

Location: Reem-Kayden Center, Room 200

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