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samizdat (iou)



samizdat noun. Also Samizdat. M20.
[Russian, from sam(o- self + izdat(el'stvo publishing house.]
The clandestine or illegal copying and distribution of literature, esp. in the former USSR; an underground press; a text or texts produced by this.
in samizdat in this form of publication.
attrib.: P. P. Read A samizdat story which had been smuggled out of Czechoslovakia.