samizdat

key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored and underground publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader
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samizdat

Summary

samizdat ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (841 views/month).[1]

Key Facts

  • samizdat's image is recorded as Russian samizdat and photo negatives of unofficial literature in the USSR.jpg[2].
  • samizdat's image is recorded as Wydawnictwa podziemne.jpg[3].
  • samizdat's image is recorded as Газета «Центральна Рада» Ч2 С1.pdf[4].
  • samizdat's image is recorded as Marie Rút Křížková – Zaživa.jpg[5].
  • samizdat's GND ID is recorded as 4130988-1[6].
  • samizdat's Library of Congress authority ID is recorded as sh85139585[7].
  • samizdat's Bibliothèque nationale de France ID is recorded as 11949562s[8].
  • samizdat's IdRef ID is recorded as 027459357[9].
  • samizdat's subclass of is recorded as self-publishing[10].
  • samizdat's subclass of is recorded as underground press[11].
  • samizdat's Commons category is recorded as Samizdat[12].
  • samizdat's Freebase ID is recorded as /m/0dhx5[13].
  • samizdat's NL CR AUT ID is recorded as ph136929[14].
  • samizdat's topic's main category is recorded as Category:Samizdat publications[15].
  • samizdat's described at URL is recorded as https://sachsen.digital/sammlungen/politischer-samisdat-der-ddr[16].
  • samizdat's described by source is recorded as Sachsen.digital[17].
  • samizdat's Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID is recorded as technology/samizdat[18].
  • samizdat's Jewish Encyclopedia ID is recorded as 13674[19].
  • samizdat's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'ru', 'text': 'самизда́т'}[20].
  • samizdat's native label is recorded as {'lang': 'uk', 'text': 'самви́дав'}[21].
  • samizdat's different from is recorded as underground press[22].
  • samizdat's different from is recorded as self-publishing[23].
  • samizdat's Great Russian Encyclopedia Online ID is recorded as 3530456[24].
  • samizdat's NE.se ID is recorded as samizdat[25].
  • samizdat's Treccani ID is recorded as samizdat[26].

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Works and Contributions

Things named for samizdat include Samizdata[27], a website[28].

Why It Matters

samizdat ranks in the top 2% of general entities by monthly Wikipedia readership (841 views/month).[1] samizdat has Wikipedia articles in 27 language editions, a strong signal of global cultural recognition.[29] samizdat is known by 38 alternative names across languages and contexts.[30]

Entities named for samizdat include Samizdata[27], a website[28].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [2] . wikidata.org.
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  3. [4] . wikidata.org.
  4. [5] . wikidata.org.
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  10. [11] . wikidata.org.
  11. [12] . wikidata.org.
  12. [13] . Freebase Data Dumps. wikidata.org.
  13. [14] . wikidata.org.
  14. [15] . wikidata.org.
  15. [16] . wikidata.org.
  16. [17] . sachsen.digital. sachsen.digital. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [18] . wikidata.org.
  18. [19] . wikidata.org.
  19. [20] . wikidata.org.
  20. [21] . wikidata.org.
  21. [22] . wikidata.org.
  22. [23] . wikidata.org.
  23. [24] . wikidata.org.
  24. [25] . wikidata.org.
  25. [26] . wikidata.org.

Inverse relationships (entities pointing at this one)

  1. [27] . wikidata.org. → on this site

Inline context (facts about related entities)

  1. [28] . Wikidata. wikidata.org. → on this site

Aggregate / graph-position facts

  1. [1] . Wikimedia Foundation. dumps.wikimedia.org.
  2. [29] . Wikidata sitelinks. wikidata.org.
  3. [30] . Wikidata aliases. wikidata.org.

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