samvydav

plural samvydavs

1. uncountableusuallySamizdat.

   Many of these appeals appeared in Ukrains’kyi visnyk, a samvydav Ukrainian publication, and a surprising amount eventually were smuggled out of Ukraine to the West.

   1978, Stephan M. Horak, Russia, the USSR, and Eastern Europe: A Bibliographic Guide to English Language Publications, 1964-1974, Littleton, Colo.: Libraries Unlimited, page 325

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   Although some members of the group changed their writing in response to warnings from the party, others continued to publish in the so-called samvydav, or publishing underground, in which self-published works were illegally produced and distributed.

   1996, Paul Robert Magocsi, A History of Ukraine, Toronto: University of Toronto Press, page 661

   One result was the politicization of samvydav (self-publishing, samizdat in Russian), unofficial literature copied on typewriters or by hand and distributed secretly. At first mostly forbidden literary works, by the mid-1960s Ukrainian samvydav developed into bold political journalism.

   2007, Serhy Yekelchyk, Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation, Oxford University Press, page 165