Meaning Of The Word Samizdat

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Samizdat Meaning

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samizdat
Samizdat referred to a system in the former USSR and Eastern Europe by which books and magazines forbidden by the state were illegally printed by groups who opposed the state.

samizdat in American English
a system by which manuscripts denied official publication in the Soviet Union were circulated clandestinely in typescript or in mimeograph form, or were smuggled out for publication abroad
noun: a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately

samizdat in British English
noun: a system of clandestine printing and distribution of banned or dissident literature

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