Samizdat
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Samizdat, also samvydav, was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documen
Russian samizdat and photo negatives of unofficial literature
Samizdat concealed within a bookbinding; seen in the Museum of Occupations and Freedom Fights, Vilnius
A closeup of typewritten samizdat, Moscow
A typewritten copy of the Russian human rights periodical A Chronicle of Current Events, Moscow
Ribs (recordings)
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Ribs, also known as music on ribs, jazz on bones, bones, bone music or roentgenizdat, are improvised gramophone recordings made from polyester X-ray films. Mostly made through the 1950s and 1960s, rib
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…opposed the assumed superiority of Russian culture over the Ukrainian and condemned the forced assimilation of Ukrainians to the Russian language. Ribs, "music on the ribs", "bone records", or roentgenizdat (roentgen- from the Russian term for X-ray, named for Wilhelm Röntgen) were homemade phonograph…
"Rock on bones" Gramophone record (USSR, 1950s). Gallery "Vinzavod", Moscow