tamizdat

Noun

tamizdat (countable and uncountable, plural tamizdats)

1. Writings published abroad and smuggled back into the former USSR.
   • Foremost—and most controversial — of the Western groups engaged in tamizdat is the Posev‐Grani [organization], commonly known as N.T.S.1970 March 15, Albert Parry, “Samizdat Is Russia' Underground Press”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Jul 2019
   • The fact that samizdat/tamizdat were written symbols of the human suffering in the Eastern bloc encouraged a less critical and often naive reading of the texts both then and now. Thus, we hope here to critically view some of the inherent dangers of samizdat/tamizdat publication, without diminishing...2013, Friederike Kind-Kovács, Jessie Labov, “Introduction: Samizdat and Tamizdat”, in Friederike Kind-Kovács, Jessie Labov, editors, Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond: Transnational Media during and...