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单词 samizdat
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samizdat

[ sah-miz-daht; Russian suh-myiz-daht ]
/ ˈsɑ mɪzˌdɑt; Russian sə myɪzˈdɑt /

noun

a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately.
a work or periodical circulated by this system.

Origin of samizdat

1965–70; <Russian samizdát, equivalent to sam(o)- self- + izdát(el'stvo) publishing agency; coined as a jocular allusion to the compound names of official Soviet publishing organs, e.g., Gosizdát for Gosudárstvennoe izdátel'stvo State Publishing House

Words nearby samizdat

Samian ware, samiel, samisen, samite, samiti, samizdat, Saml., samlet, Sammarinese, Sammartini, sammie
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Example sentences from the Web for samizdat

  • The bigger the market – the more pressure is applied to clamp down on the samizdat entrepreneurs.

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British Dictionary definitions for samizdat

samizdat
/ (Russian səmizˈdat) /

noun (in the former Soviet Union)

  1. a system of clandestine printing and distribution of banned or dissident literature
  2. (as modifier)a samizdat publication

Word Origin for samizdat

C20: from Russian, literally: self-published
Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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