Key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader

X-ray audio / ed. Stephen Coates ; [original photography by Paul Heartfield ; with contributions by Rudy Fuchs, Aleks Kolkowski, Maksim Kravchinsky, Artemyi Troitsky, Kolya Vasin].

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Underground literature - Soviet Union

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X-ray audio / ed. Stephen Coates ; [original photography by Paul Heartfield ; with contributions by Rudy Fuchs, Aleks Kolkowski, Maksim Kravchinsky, Artemyi Troitsky, Kolya Vasin].