How do you use Samizdat in a sentence? See 10+ example sentences showing how this word appears in different contexts, plus the exact meaning.
Samizdat in a sentence
Samizdat meaning
- The secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications.
- A samizdat publication.
Synonyms of Samizdat
Using Samizdat
- The main meaning on this page is: The secret copying and sharing of illegal publications, chiefly in the Soviet Union; underground publishing and its publications. | A samizdat publication.
- Useful related words include: underground press, print media.
- In the example corpus, samizdat often appears in combinations such as: samizdat literature, as samizdat.
Context around Samizdat
- Average sentence length in these examples: 21.6 words
- Position in the sentence: 2 start, 8 middle, 4 end
- Sentence types: 14 statements, 0 questions, 0 exclamations
Corpus analysis for Samizdat
- In this selection, "samizdat" usually appears in the middle of the sentence. The average example has 21.6 words, and this corpus slice is mostly made up of statements.
- Around the word, american, sydney, term, literature, press and publications stand out and add context to how "samizdat" is used.
- Recognizable usage signals include and camps samizdat update news and being shared samizdat style by. That gives this page its own corpus information beyond isolated example sentences.
- By corpus frequency, "samizdat" sits close to words such as aaaa, abductees and abdulahi, which helps place it inside the broader word index.
Example types with samizdat
The same corpus examples are grouped by length and sentence type, making it easier to see the contexts in which the word appears:
Not everything published in samizdat had political overtones. (8 words)
Samizdat literature again returned to Catholicism, to memoirs and diaries of daily life (Vaculík). (14 words)
No unified political thought existed within samizdat; rather, authors debated from a variety of perspectives. (15 words)
Without the American samizdat, all we would have is the official party line as served up by the corrupt media, protecting the public from the need to make up their own minds. (32 words)
The open or semi-open opposition communications, as recently practiced, were replaced by underground publishing (known in the eastern bloc as Samizdat ), and Solidarity was reduced to a few thousand underground activists. (32 words)
The only way to make one's work known was to declaim it in the several "literary" cafes which then sprang up, or – anticipating samizdat – to circulate it in manuscript. (30 words)
Example sentences (14)
Without the American samizdat, all we would have is the official party line as served up by the corrupt media, protecting the public from the need to make up their own minds.
A collection of Jack London's San Francisco Stories was published in October 2010 by Sydney Samizdat Press.
He made contact with other interested people and contributed to samizdat publications on the history of Soviet Jews.
In hacker and computer jargon, the term samizdat was used for the dissemination of needed and hard to obtain documents or information.
Its regular rubrics were "Arrests, Searches, Interrogations", " Extra-judicial Persecution ", "In Prisons and Camps ", "Samizdat update", "News in brief", and "Persecution of Religion".
Memory and history were also chief motifs of samizdat literature (Karel Šiktanc, Jiřina Hauková ), as were brutally honest, factual testimonials of daily life ( Ivan Martin Jirous ).
Not everything published in samizdat had political overtones.
No unified political thought existed within samizdat; rather, authors debated from a variety of perspectives.
Samizdat literature again returned to Catholicism, to memoirs and diaries of daily life (Vaculík).
The longest-running and best-known samizdat periodical was A Chronicle of Current Events (Хроника текущих событий).
The only way to make one's work known was to declaim it in the several "literary" cafes which then sprang up, or – anticipating samizdat – to circulate it in manuscript.
The open or semi-open opposition communications, as recently practiced, were replaced by underground publishing (known in the eastern bloc as Samizdat ), and Solidarity was reduced to a few thousand underground activists.
This erased one of the chief distinctions of shareware, as it was now most often downloaded from a central "official" location instead of being shared samizdat -style by its users.
Works like Salman Rushdie 's Satanic Verses (1988) appeared inside the Religious Republic in illegal Samizdat editions.
Common combinations with samizdat
These word pairs occur most frequently in English texts:
- samizdat literature 2×
- as samizdat 2×