Samizdat
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Samizdat (Самизда́т, lit. "self-publishing") was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader. This grassroots practice to evade official Soviet censorship was fraught with danger, as harsh punishments were meted out to people caught possessing or copying censored materials. Vladimir Bukovsky summarized it as follows: "Samizdat: I write it myself, edit it myself, censor it myself, publish it myself, distribute it myself, and spend jail time for it myself."
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See also
- Censorship in the Soviet Union
- Eastern Bloc media and propaganda
- Gosizdat
- Human rights in the Soviet Union
- Political repression in the Soviet Union
- USSR anti-religious campaign (1970s–1987)
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