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Word of the Moment: Samizdat, n.

1. publishing house
2. a system in the U.S.S.R. and countries within its orbit by which government-suppressed literature was clandestinely printed and distributed; also : such literature

Etymology: Russian, from sam- self- izdatel’stvo

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