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Samizdat

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Samizdat Russian samizdat and photo negatives of unofficial literature Russianсамиздат Romanizationsamizdat Literal meaningself-publishing Samizdat (Russian: самиздат, pronounced [səmɨzˈdat], lit. 'self-publishing'), also samvydav (Ukrainian: самвидав), 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…

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