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samizdat
[ sah-miz-daht; Russian suh-myiz-daht ]
noun
- a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately.
- a work or periodical circulated by this system.
samizdat
/ səmizˈdat /
noun
- a system of clandestine printing and distribution of banned or dissident literature
- ( as modifier )
a samizdat publication
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Word History and Origins
Origin of samizdat1
1965–70; < Russian samizdát, equivalent to sam ( o )- self- + izdát ( el'stvo ) publishing agency; coined as a jocular allusion to the compound names of official Soviet publishing organs, e.g., Gosizdát for Gosudárstvennoe izdátel'stvo State Publishing House
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Word History and Origins
Origin of samizdat1
C20: from Russian, literally: self-published
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Example Sentences
Where are the writers who helped smuggle samizdat out from behind the Iron Curtain?
From The Daily Beast
The bigger the market – the more pressure is applied to clamp down on the samizdat entrepreneurs.
From Project Gutenberg
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