Samizdat
Underground publications in the Soviet bloc / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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For other uses, see Samizdat (disambiguation).
Samizdat (Russian: самиздат, lit. 'self-publishing') was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader. The practice of manual reproduction was widespread, because typewriters and printing devices required official registration and permission to access. This was a grassroots practice used to evade official Soviet censorship.
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Russian | самиздат |
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Romanization | samizdat |
Literal meaning | self-publishing |
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