The calendar is dedicated to the phenomenon of Soviet samazada. It is a book and consists of 52 pages. Each page is dedicated to a writer, poet, or publicist whose texts have been distributed through samazat.
I tried to make the calendar look like the original samazat compilations — printed on thin paper or hand-written, stitched up, with scanner marks and ripped edges.
Not all the text on the pages can be read — something goes beyond the page, something closes the numbers and photos.
I used four types of paper. On office white paper, the pages of writers left in the USSR are printed, on glossy — famous persons, on eco-paper — immigrant writers, and on thin paper with perforation — victims of political repression.
The calendar may exist in the form of separate sheets as well as as as a book-- in reality, copies of the Samizdat were sewn up, and sometimes simply bound the block with threads.
