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Samizdat

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Noun

1. samizdat, underground press

a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Samizdat

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noun (in the former Soviet Union)
a. 
a system of clandestine printing and distribution of banned or dissident literature
b. 
(as modifier)
a samizdat publication

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Samizdat

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noun
1. 
a system by which manuscripts denied official publication in the Soviet Union were circulated clandestinely in typescript or in mimeograph form, or were smuggled out for publication abroad
2. 
manuscripts distributed in this way

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Samizdat

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n.
1.
a. The secret publication and distribution of government-banned literature in the former Soviet Union.
b. The literature produced by this system.
2. An underground press.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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