Definitions
a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature
Word origin
Borrowed from Russian самизда́т (samizdát, “self-publishing”), from сам (sam, “self”) + изда́т (izdát), an abbreviation of изда́тельство (izdátelʹstvo, “publishing house, publishing”) (compare Russian Госизда́т (Gosizdát, “State Publisher”)).
Used in a sentence
“Now liberal cultural power has increased, the ACLU doesn’t seem very interested in the liberties of non-progressives anymore, and Dr. Seuss sells as pricey samizdat.”
“Journals which once would have circulated, if at all, as underground samizdaty, those involved risking years in a labour camp, now carry the name, address and phone number of the editor.”
“The books of [Aleksandr] Solzhenitsyn and the recollections of Evgeny^([sic]) Ginsburg and Varlam Shalamoff were reprinted and broadly circulated in samizdaty.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Secret writing”8 letters
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