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ˈsɑ mɪzˌdɑtsamiz·dat

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. samizdat, underground pressnoun

    a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature

Wiktionary

  1. samizdatnoun

    The secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications.

  2. samizdatnoun

    A samizdat publication.

  3. Etymology: 1967, From самиздат, from сам + издат, abbrev. of издательство. Compare Russian.

Wikipedia

  1. Samizdat

    Samizdat (Russian: самиздат, lit. 'self-publishing') was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader. The practice of manual reproduction was widespread, because most typewriters and printing devices required official registration and permission to access. This was a grassroots practice used to evade official Soviet censorship.

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  1. samizdat

    Samizdat is a Russian term that refers to a clandestine copying and distribution system used to circulate banned literature or other media in the former Soviet Union. The content could range from political treatises to novels, usually critical of the Soviet regime. It originated during the mid-20th century and continued throughout the country's communist rule. Literally translated, "samizdat" means "self-publishing".

Wikidata

  1. Samizdat

    Samizdat was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader. This grassroots practice to evade officially imposed censorship was fraught with danger as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials. Vladimir Bukovsky defined it as follows: I myself create it, edit it, censor it, publish it, distribute it, and ... get imprisoned for it.

The New Hacker's Dictionary

  1. samizdat

    [Russian, literally “self publishing”] The process of disseminating documentation via underground channels. Originally referred to underground duplication and distribution of banned books in the Soviet Union; now refers by obvious extension to any less-than-official promulgation of textual material, esp. rare, obsolete, or never-formally-published computer documentation. Samizdat is obviously much easier when one has access to high-bandwidth networks and high-quality laser printers. Note that samizdat is properly used only with respect to documents which contain needed information (see also hacker ethic) but which are for some reason otherwise unavailable, but not in the context of documents which are available through normal channels, for which unauthorized duplication would be unethical copyright violation. See Lions Book for a historical example.

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  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of samizdat in Chaldean Numerology is: 7

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of samizdat in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

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