tamizdat
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English
Etymology
Borrowed from Russian тамизда́т (tamizdát, literally “published there”), from там (tam, “there”) + изда́ть (izdátʹ).
Noun
tamizdat (countable and uncountable, plural tamizdats)
- (historical) Writings published abroad and smuggled back into the former USSR.
- 1970 March 15, Albert Parry, “Samizdat Is Russia' Underground Press”, in The New York Times:
- Foremost—and most controversial — of the Western groups engaged in tamizdat is the Posev‐Grani [organization], commonly known as N.T.S.
- 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 after Socialism (Studies in Contemporary European History; 13), New York, N.Y.: Berghahn Books, →ISBN, page 3:
- 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 its relevance as visualizations of human experience.
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Further reading
- "Tamizdat Gaining Prominence Samizdat had in Last Decades of Soviet Times" by Paul A. Goble, Window on Eurasia (September 22, 2024)