''Revolver Revue'' is a Czech quarterly

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published in

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. The magazine was an underground periodical and issued legally after the

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History and profile

''Revolver Revue'' was established in January 1985. The first issue was only fifty copies. The founders were Ivan Lamper, Jáchym Topol and Viktor Karlík. The magazine became a literary magazine in December 1990. It is published four times a year. A complete archive of "Revolver Revue" exists at

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, a library of prohibited and banned books and

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in Prague.

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