samizdat

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a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature

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Apart from being one of the few novels to exceed Hemingway for sheer alcoholic content, the book is a vicious satire of Soviet life and predictably had to circulate in samizdat for years before finally being published immediately before his death. Source: Internet

He made contact with other interested people and contributed to samizdat publications on the history of Soviet Jews. Source: Internet

However, a divide existed within Jewish samizdat between authors who advocated exodus and those who argued that Jews should remain in the USSR to fight for their rights. Source: Internet

In hacker and computer jargon, the term samizdat was used for the dissemination of needed and hard to obtain documents or information. Source: Internet

Memory and history were also chief motifs of samizdat literature (Karel Šiktanc, Jiřina Hauková ), as were brutally honest, factual testimonials of daily life ( Ivan Martin Jirous ). Source: Internet

Not everything published in samizdat had political overtones. Source: Internet

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