The Electronic Archive “Project for the Study of Dissidence and Samizdat” (PSDS) includes the database of Soviet samizdat periodicals, electronic editions of selected samizdat journals, illustrated timelines of dissident movements, and interviews with activists. The Project aims to make rare materials more widely available and to provoke questions about the trajectories of groups and individuals within the varied field of Soviet dissidence and nonconformist culture.
Soviet Samizdat Periodicals is a database of information about editions of classic Soviet samizdat.
1956-1986
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A new phase of the project devoted to the Dissident Legacy (Héritages de la dissidence) has begun: see information in the first issue of the Newsletter.
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