tamizdat

noun

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

   countable, uncountable

   Foremost—and most controversial — of the Western groups engaged in tamizdat is the Posev‐Grani [organization], commonly known as N.T.S.

Where it comes from

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

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry tamizdat (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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