samizdat

IPA: sˈæmizdʌt

(uncountable, often attributive) The secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications.
(countable) A samizdat publication.

Examples of "samizdat" in Sentences

An underground dissident literature, known as samizdat, developed during this late period.
Previously we have called samizdat everything that has been issued illegaly due to censorship reason.
Others were passed on, from one to the next, the first instances of the hand to hand publication we later called samizdat.
Either my writings had become part of the underground circulation called samizdat, or they'd been pulled out of my hypothetical KGB file.
"For years, it circulated in samizdat on college campuses," wrote Owen, who told me that his profile of Meyer itself circulated in samizdat for five years, until a new editor came across it.
I should also point out right away that the comparison of these new tech-savvy professional activists to the Soviet-era "samizdat" -- so beloved by many analysts of new media's impact on politics and society -- is not really accurate.
But of more interest is Hurree's desription of his own, cherished edition of the poem: "For years, like most of my generation, I'd been reading Kolatkar's classic poem-cycle in samizdat form — some of us had copies that had been xeroxed so often that Kolatkar's words assumed ghostly form on the page, some had painstakingly typed (yes, typed, as in on a manual typewriter) copies of the book with corrections made in violet ink."