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*Samizdat, a Russian term dating from about 1966, means “self-published” and refers to the underground publication and circulation of banned, unauthorized, and dissident articles or books, often by hand and passed from reader to reader. Samizdat publication occurred across the Soviet Bloc. Its manual reproduction was necessitated by government control over the registration and permissions to access both typewriters and printing devices. Samizdat smuggled out of the country to lands supporting a free press became known as tamizdat.
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