samizdat

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  1. noun The secret publication and distribution of government-banned literature in the former Soviet Union.
  2. noun The literature produced by this system.
  3. noun An underground press.

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  • Even during the most lenient periods, overt Christians faced employment discrimination, religious instruction of their children was banned, priests were subjected to onerous taxes on their meager incomes, religious publications were censored, Bibles and devotional works were nearly unobtainable except as samizdat, KGB agents infiltrated the hierarchy, communist functionaries harassed parishes and prevented church repairs, and arbitrary arrest was an ever present risk. —  Stromata Blog
  • David Peace's The Damned Utd came out and went through the office football men like a samizdat Shoot magazine. —  Mirror.co.uk - News
  • As a Soviet-era dissident he was a member of the Moscow Helsinki Group human rights organization, editor of the samizdat journal "The Chronicle of Current Events," and the author of a 1977 book, "Punitive Medicine," that chronicled the abuses of the psychiatric profession against political prisoners. —  The Full Feed from HuffingtonPost.com
  • He then founded the Kvart samizdat publisher's that issued over 120 books, including his collections of poems, essays and criticism. —  Poetry & Poets in Rags
  • He was himself imprisoned for publishing samizdat literature. —  Propeller Most Popular Stories
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  1. Russian : sam, self; see sem-1 in Indo-European roots + izdatel'stvo, publishing house (from izdat', to publish, on the model of Gosizdat, State Publishing House : iz, from, out of; see eghs in Indo-European roots + dat', to give; see dō- in Indo-European roots).
 

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