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.

See also

• freedom of press
• freedom of speech