tamizdat

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. Writings published abroad and smuggled back into the former USSR.

Word forms

tamizdat tamizdats

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian тамизда́т (tamizdát, literally “published there”), from там (tam, “there”) + изда́ть (izdátʹ).

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