Samizdat

Quick meaning: Samizdat is a noun meaning (countable) A samizdat publication.

Meaning

(countable) A samizdat publication.

More Meanings

1. (uncountable, often attributive) The secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications.

Example Sentences

The books of [Aleksandr] Solzhenitsyn and the recollections of Evgeny^([sic]) Ginsburg and Varlam Shalamoff were reprinted and broadly circulated in samizdaty.

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.

Carter chose not to publish on doomsday, discussing it only in seminars where he thought it could get a fair hearing. In this way the doomsday argument began as a secret, almost samizdat doctrine, known to a few as the “Carter catastrophe.”

Word Forms

• samizdats
• samizdaty

Synonyms for samizdat

Depending on context, synonyms include samvydav, zine.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include magnitizdat, tamizdat, zine, copublication, privishing, self-publishing.

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