samizdat
Sign in to saveSamizdat (, , ), also Samvydav () 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 printed texts could be traced back to the source. This was a grassroots practice used to evade official Soviet censorship.
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Samizdat (, , ), also Samvydav () 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 printed texts could be traced back to the source. This was a grassroots practice used to evade official Soviet censorship.
==Name origin and variations== Etymologically, the word samizdat derives from sam ( 'self, by oneself') and izdat (, an abbreviation of , 'publishing house'), and thus means 'self-published'. Ukrainian has a similar term: samvydav (, ), from sam 'self' and vydavnytstvo 'publishing house'.
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Censorship in the Eastern BlocCensorship in the Soviet UnionCountercultureCounterculture of the 1950sCounterculture of the 1960sCounterculture of the 1970sCounterculture of the 1980sCulture of the Soviet UnionEastern Bloc mass mediaNewspapers published in SlovakiaPolish dissident organisationsPolish literature