samizdat
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Definition of samizdat
: a system in the U.S.S.R. and countries within its orbit by which government-suppressed literature was clandestinely printed and distributed also : such literature
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Last Child received dazzling reviews and was passed around public schools as samizdat. — Conor Williams, The Atlantic, "The Perks of a Play-in-the-Mud Educational Philosophy," 26 Apr. 2018 Though publicly unavailable, the study is circulating among academics as a sort of email attachment samizdat. — Sopan Deb And Max Fisher, New York Times, "The Holocaust Museum Sought Lessons on Syria. What It Got Was a Political Backlash.," 17 Sep. 2017 The book was published in the West and circulated in samizdat form in the Soviet Union. — Sophia Kishkovsky, New York Times, "Igor Shafarevich, Russian Mathematician With a Mixed Political Legacy, Dies at 93," 13 Mar. 2017 The video was grainy, balky and awkwardly framed — which only added to the samizdat, you-are-there electricity of the broadcast. — James Poniewozik, New York Times, "C-Span, Gun Control and a Protest Made for Streaming," 23 June 2016These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'samizdat.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
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