Word: samizdat
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...Samizdat Essay. Radio Liberty, which has a $14 million budget, employs 800 persons, including 250 Soviet defectors. It broadcasts 24 hours daily in 19 languages. A research staff of 40 gleans Russian publications for details about happenings in the country. Through private channels, Radio Liberty receives underground samizdat (literally, self-publishing) manuscripts that are clandestinely circulating in the Soviet Union and broadcasts them to listeners in Russia...
...Radio Liberty, a typical day's broadcasting, in addition to hourly news bulletins, might include a samizdat essay by a Soviet engineer on the need for economic reform in Russia and a synopsis of a Polish film that is not being shown in Russia. Radio Liberty tries to fill in gaps caused by Soviet censorship. For example, it carries criticism by Western psychiatrists about Soviet imprisonment in mental hospitals of political dissenters...
...from his job as head of the Obninsk radiological institute, 35 miles southwest of Moscow. Unable to find another job, he set about writing a calm, straightforward survey of the restrictions, censorship, and surveillance that oppress many Soviet intellectuals. This work too found its way to the West via samizdat (literally "self-publishing"), the literary underground. It was his authorship of that book, published in the U.S. this week by St. Martin's Press as The Medvedev Papers, which led directly to Medvedev's forced hospitalization last year...
This book cannot now be published in our homeland except in Samizdat* because of objections by censors that are inconceivable to the normal human mind and also because it would be necessary to write the word God in lowercase. I cannot bow down to such a humiliation...
Using the underground samizdat (literally, self-publishing) system, young