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A system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature
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samizdat
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n. 1 (cx uncountable often attributive English) The secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications. 2 (cx countable English) A samizdat publication.
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n. a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature [syn: underground press ]
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Samizdat was an international poetry magazine published in Chicago from 1998 until 2004 and edited by the poet Robert Archambeau . It was noted for its unusual format, being printed on large newsprint pages. Contributors included Adam Zagajewski as well ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"illegal and clandestine copying and sharing of literature," 1967, from Russian samizdat , literally "self-publishing," from sam "self" (see same ) + izdatel'stvo "publishing" (from iz "from, out of," from PIE *eghs ; see ex- ; + dat' "to give," from PIE ...
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So when a man in South America was threatened with the wreckage of his career for using ex-terrorists to inform on functioning terrorists, Devereaux wrote a paper so sarcastic that it circulated throughout the grinning staffers of Ops Division like illegal samizdat in the old Soviet Union.
Attempts to trace the matrix of the samizdat without viewing it from induction on postal codes, e-micros-copíes on the brown padded mailers, immolation and chromatography on the unlabelled cartridge-cases, extensive and maddening interviews of those civilians exposed place the likely dissemination-point someplace along the U.
Thus, the same pious blowhards who love to prattle about the sacrosanct First Amendment when the speech at issue is obscene or treasonous are constantly issuing lunatic demands for regulation of America’s most dangerous Samizdat media: the World Wide Web.
Thus, the same pious blowhards who love to prattle about the sacrosanct First Amendment when the speech at issue is obscene or treasonous are constantly issuing lunatic demands for regulation of America's most dangerous Samizdat media: the World Wide Web.
If the universal experience of liberal hectoring was not so unpleasant, Americans might not have turned to the Samizdat media with such zeal.