samvydav

English

Etymology

1971, from Ukrainian самви́дав (samvýdav, “samizdat”) < сам (sam, “self”) + ви́дання (výdannja, “publication”). Compare samizdat < Russian самизда́т (samizdát).

Noun

samvydav (usually uncountable, plural samvydavs)

1. (chiefly in a Ukrainian context) Samizdat.
   • 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:

     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.

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

     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.

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

     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.

Usage notes

• Usually italicized as a foreign term not fully naturalized.

Quotations

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