samizdat

Meanings

1. The secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications.
2. A samizdat publication.

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian самизда́т (samizdát, “self-publishing”), from сам (sam, “self”) + изда́т (izdát), an abbreviation of изда́тельство (izdátelʹstvo, “publishing house, publishing”) (compare Russian Госизда́т (Gosizdát, “State Publisher”)).