Editing Samizdat (section)

{{Short description|Underground publications in the Soviet bloc}}
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{{Use American English|date=January 2021}}
{{Russianterm
| image=Russian samizdat and photo negatives of unofficial literature in the USSR.jpg
| caption=Russian samizdat and photo negatives of unofficial literature
| russian = самиздат
| rusr = samizdat
| literal meaning = [[self-publishing]]
}}

'''Samizdat''' ({{langx|ru|самиздат}}, {{IPA|ru|səmɨzˈdat|pron}}, {{lit|self-publishing}}) was a form of [[Soviet dissidents|dissident]] activity across the [[Eastern Bloc]] in which individuals reproduced censored and underground makeshift publications, often by hand, and passed the documents from reader to reader. The practice of manual reproduction was widespread, because printed texts could be traced back to the source. This was a [[grassroots]] practice used to evade [[Censorship in the Soviet Union|official Soviet censorship]].