ALL meanings of samizdat
sam·iz·dat
S s - noun samizdat a clandestine publishing system within the Soviet Union, by which forbidden or unpublishable literature was reproduced and circulated privately. 1
- noun samizdat a work or periodical circulated by this system. 1
- noun Technical meaning of samizdat (publication) (Russian, literally "self publishing") The process of disseminating documentation via underground channels. Originally referred to photocopy duplication and distribution of banned books in the former Soviet Union; now refers by obvious extension to any less-than-official promulgation of textual material, especially rare, obsolete, or never-formally-published computer documentation. Samizdat is obviously much easier when one has access to high-bandwidth networks and high-quality laser printers. Strictly, "samizdat" only applies to distribution of needed documents that are otherwise unavailable, and not to duplication of material that is available for sale under copyright. See Lions Book for a historical example. See also: hacker ethic. 1
- uncountable noun samizdat Samizdat referred to a system in the former USSR and Eastern Europe by which books and magazines forbidden by the state were illegally printed by groups who opposed the state. 0
- noun samizdat a system of clandestine printing and distribution of banned or dissident literature 0
- noun samizdat (as modifier) 0
- noun samizdat 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 0
- noun samizdat manuscripts distributed in this way 0