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    Samizdat (Russian: самиздат, pronounced [səmɨzˈdat], lit. 'self-publishing') was a form of dissident activity across the Eastern Bloc in which individuals...
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  • Samizdat is the clandestine copying and distribution of government-suppressed literature or other media in Soviet-bloc countries. Samizdat may also refer...
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  • Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code is a 2004 report by Kenneth Brown. The report suggests that the Linux kernel may...
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  • Generation Warriors is a science fiction novel by American writers Anne McCaffrey and Elizabeth Moon. published by Baen Books in 1991. It concludes the...
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  • Interesting Times is a fantasy novel by British writer Terry Pratchett. It is the seventeenth book in the Discworld series and is set in the Aurient (a...
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    than with building socialism. Underground dissident literature, known as samizdat, developed during this late period. In architecture, the Khrushchev era...
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    copyright Private copying levy Production music Rent-seeking Reproduction fees Samizdat Software copyright Threshold pledge system World Book and Copyright Day...
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    Circumvention of dissemination controls occurred to some degree through samizdat and limited reception of western radio and television broadcasts. In addition...
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    romanized: Khronika tekushchikh sobytiy) was one of the longest running samizdat periodicals of the post-Stalinist Soviet Union. This unofficial newsletter...
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    B92 (redirect from Samizdat B92)
    B92 media network are B92.net web portal, B92 Fond humanitarian fund, Samizdat B92 book publisher and Rex cultural center. The most prominent person in...
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  • section where one can publish his own literary texts ("Samizdat" journal, named after the samizdat of the Soviet era), a project for music publishing ("Music...
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  • Venedikt Yerofeyev. Written between 1969 and 1970 and passed around in samizdat, it was first published in 1973 in Israel and later, in 1977, in Paris...
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  • Samizdat was an international poetry magazine published in Chicago from 1998 until 2004 and edited by the poet Robert Archambeau. It was noted for its...
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    archival research library located in Prague, Czech Republic that collects samizdat and exile literature. The organization is maintained and run by Jiří Gruntorád...
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    news of Yeltsin's insubordination and "secret speech" spread, and soon samizdat versions began to circulate. That marked the beginning of Yeltsin's rebranding...
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    KOI8-R encoding (in Russian) Samizdat books and artist' books by Serge Segay, some with zaum and visual poetry Samizdat books and artist' books by Ry...
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  • Samizdat copies of Nabokov's works on display at Nabokov House in Saint Petersburg....
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  • of political repressions as well as citizens' reactions to them through samizdat (unsanctioned self-publishing) methods played a key role in the formation...
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    poet, translator, and editor. In the 1970s and 1980s he took part in the samizdat edition Texty přátel (Texts of Friends). From 1993–1997 he was the influential...
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    Andreev Language Russian Genre Religious philosophy Esotericism Publisher Samizdat (self–publishing) Prometheus (legal publisher) Publication date 1958 (self–publishing)...
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    time as KGB chairman by the underground Chronicle of Current Events, a samizdat publication that was itself finally forced out of existence after its 30...
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    Mutiny Protest Rebellion Resistance Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Riot Samizdat Strike action Tax resistance Terror Examples English Atlantic American...
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    activist Infoshop List of minicomics creators Minicomic Pamphlet Pop-up book Samizdat Underground comix United Fanzine Organization Triggs, Teal (2010). Fanzines...
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    While at university, Kuznetsov became involved with the first unsanctioned samizdat (self-published) magazines. In 1958-61, he co-edited the underground literary...
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    This was a prelude to the pending publication of a book by Brown titled Samizdat: And Other Issues Regarding the 'Source' of Open Source Code. The book...
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    the first place. Library Genesis has roots in the illegal underground samizdat culture in the Soviet Union. As access to printing in the Soviet Union...
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  • in Philology in 1959. He wrote poetry in Soviet Russia as part of the Samizdat movement, creating poems that were both visually and audibly artistic....
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    and early '80s. In 1982, he cofounded the samizdat magazine Violit, and in 1985 Revolver Revue, a samizdat review that specialized in modern Czech writing...
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  • Revolution, Revolt, Rebellion, Terrorism, Insurrection, popular uprising Samizdat Propaganda, counter-propaganda, slogans, sloganeering, meme Lobbying Dissent...
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    Mutiny Protest Rebellion Resistance Nonviolent Civil Disobedience Riot Samizdat Strike action Tax resistance Terror Examples English Atlantic American...
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