Samizdat

Samizdat (self-published, in Russian ????????) was a grassroots practice to evade officially imposed censorship in the Soviet-bloc countries wherein people clandestinely copied and distributed government-suppressed literature or other media. The idea was that copies were made a few at a time, and anyone who had a copy and access to any sort of copying equipment would make more copies.

Related concepts

Magnitizdat refers to the passing on of taped sound recordings (magnit- referring to magnetic tape), often of "underground" music groups, bards or lectures.

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Tamizdat refers to literature published abroad (???, "tam" means "there"), often from smuggled manuscripts.

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