tamizdat

English

Etymology

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

Noun

tamizdat (countable and uncountable, plural tamizdats)

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