My Samizdat Blog

Samizdat is Russian for "self-published." In the former USSR, people wrote and circulated unofficial literature because they couldn't get it published due to censorship. Xerox machines were closely guarded, so authors and readers duplicated articles and books by hand using carbon paper on typewriters and passed the samizdat along to trusted friends. 

"Samizdat: I write it myself, edit it myself, censor it myself, publish it myself, distribute it myself, and spend time in prison for it myself."- Vladimir Bukovsky

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