Meaning of tamizdat | Babel Free

Definitions

Writings published abroad and smuggled back into the former USSR.

countable, historical, uncountable

Examples

“Foremost—and most controversial — of the Western groups engaged in tamizdat is the Posev‐Grani [organization], commonly known as N.T.S.”

“The fact that samizdat/tamizdat were written symbols of the human suffering in the Eastern bloc encouraged a less critical and often naive reading of the texts both then and now. Thus, we hope here to critically view some of the inherent dangers of samizdat/tamizdat publication, without diminishing its relevance as visualizations of human experience.”

CEFR level