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- **Event Name**: Sarah D. Phillips on "Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR"
- **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 05 Feb, 2026 at 07:00 pm
- **Event Description**: Join us for an evening with author and IU professor Sarah D. Phillips to celebrate the release of her new book, Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR.About this EventSarah will be joined in conversation for this event by William Morris, host of WFIU's Soul Kitchen.ABOUT THE BOOK:Why, at the height of the Cold War, was Kurt Vonnegut freely published in Russian translation in the top literary journals and book series in the USSR?Sarah D. Phillips explores a fascinating yet little-known chapter in the history of literary and cultural diplomacy during the Cold War: the popularity of the American author Kurt Vonnegut in the Soviet Union during the 1970s. Drawing from previously untouched archives of manuscripts, letters, and FBI files, along with her interviews of literary and cultural figures active then in the USSR, Phillips investigates several key yet little-explored questions about Vonnegut's "Soviet Chapter." What was it about Vonnegut's writing that so appealed to readers and literary critics in the 1970s Soviet Union? Were Vonnegut's works censored, and if so, what exactly fell prey to the infamous “Red Pencil”? How much was Vonnegut aware of his cult status in the land of Lenin?Alongside an account of Cold War politics and literary cultural diplomacy, Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR is also a book about relationships - between Vonnegut and the Soviet reading public, between Vonnegut and the Soviet literary establishment, and most especially, between Vonnegut and the woman whose masterful translations were devoured by readers of Russian: the famous Soviet translator Rita Rait (1898-1989).A work at the intersection of anthropology, history, and literary, translation, American, and Slavic studies, Kurt Vonnegut in the USSR is a close look at the unique contexts around an author and his readers, and the legacies of this literary cultural diplomacy in American and post-Soviet literary cultures today.ABOUT THE AUTHOR:Sarah D. Phillips is Professor of Anthropology at Indiana University and a Bloomington resident for 22 years. She has conducted research on the cultures of Eastern Europe, especially the former Soviet Union and Ukraine, since 1993. For this book she undertook archival and interview research in Russia, Ukraine, Germany, and the U.S.
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