tamizdat

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Russian тамизда́т (tamizdát, literally “published there”), from там (tam, “there”) + изда́ть (izdátʹ).

Noun

tamizdat (countable and uncountable, plural tamizdats)

1. (historical) Writings published abroad and smuggled back into the former USSR.

Related terms

• tamizdatchik
• samizdat