samizdat
noun
sa·miz·dat
ˈsä-mēz-ˌdät 
: a system in the Soviet Union and countries within its orbit by which government-suppressed literature was clandestinely printed and distributed
also
: such literature
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His political disillusionment is recounted in this semi-autobiographical novel, which, because of its anti-Stalinist bent, had to be printed in installments by samizdat (a clandestine network of underground publishers).
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Pamela Newton, The Atlantic, 7 July 2024
The Palace premiered last fall at the Venice Film Festival and is now being circulated unofficially — like samizdat.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2024
The most famous example of samizdat was Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago, which David Lean eventually filmed in 1965.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2024
In 1999, he was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize, the oldest Russian independent literary prize, celebrating samizdat writers and poets who worked outside Soviet censorship.
—Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
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Pamela Newton, The Atlantic, 7 July 2024
The Palace premiered last fall at the Venice Film Festival and is now being circulated unofficially — like samizdat.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2024
The most famous example of samizdat was Boris Pasternak’s 1957 novel Doctor Zhivago, which David Lean eventually filmed in 1965.
—Armond White, National Review, 14 Feb. 2024
In 1999, he was awarded the Andrei Bely Prize, the oldest Russian independent literary prize, celebrating samizdat writers and poets who worked outside Soviet censorship.
—Mary Ilyushina, Washington Post, 15 Jan. 2024
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“Samizdat.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/samizdat. Accessed 26 Jul. 2024.
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