tamizdatn.
/ˈtamɪzdat/ Now historical.
Russian writings which were published abroad and smuggled back into the U.S.S.R.; (also) this system of publication.
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tamizdat1974
1974 H. T. Moore & A. Parry 20th-Cent. Russ. Lit. viii. 157 Tamizdat, a Russian word of later coinage and less spread than samizdat..refers to printed (not typed) material smuggled into the USSR from outside.
1974 H. T. Moore & A. Parry 20th-Cent. Russ. Lit. viii. 161 Plain mail is frequently used by people sending samizdat items out of the Soviet Union and tamizdat literature being sent into that country.
1975 Economist 11 Oct. 60/1 The volume of samizdat (unofficial and uncensored literature) has diminished, but this has been compensated for by the brisk circulation of publications known as tamizdat (from tam, ‘there’) printed abroad.
1978 Observer 1 Jan. 4/7 The era of samizdat is ending, he [sc. Georgy Vladimov] says. In its place has arrived the era of what he calls ‘tamizdat’—publication abroad of Russian writings that are then smuggled back into Russia.
1982 Times Lit. Suppl. 3 Sept. 950/1 It is thus a combination of samizdat and tamizdat (i.e., both unofficial Soviet and émigré publications).
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