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noun a system of clandestine printing and distribution of dissident or banned literature
originBorrowed 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”)).
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0