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1 Old talk
2 Samizdat as meme
3 RE: Organizations and people who predicted the collapse of the USSR
4 Related discussion

[edit] Old talk

Please see Talk:Censorship for a suggestion of a possible article on Government suppression of literature. -- Sam

To comment on A rough translation would be something along the lines of "Passing on" or "Giving it amongst yourselves". :

I feel that this is quite wrong. Judging from slavic etymology, Samizdat would be quite directly traslated as "self-released" or "self-published" in a sense that self refers to sole, him/her-self and individual. Or to quote from American Heritage Dictionary: "Russian : sam, self; + izdatel'stvo, publishing house (from izdat', to publish,...)" -- Luka

Sounds like a good argument to me, particularly since 'self-published' is listed as the original translation. Can anyone who speaks Russian corroborate? Luka, would you like to edit the article to remove the incorrect statements? --Saforrest 22:16, Sep 22, 2004 (UTC)

Sounds true to me, although I'm not a native speaker of Russian. [[User:Halibutt|Halibu tt]] 00:05, Sep 23, 2004 (UTC)

[edit] Samizdat as meme

Mikkalai removed category:Memetics as "irrelevant", but I don't see how that is so. A samizdat publication is all about propagating ideas from person to person in a "viral" manner like a chain letter on steroids. I'm putting it back, please elabourate here if anyone wants to remove it again. Bryan 15:54, 4 October 2005 (UTC)

[edit] RE: Organizations and people who predicted the collapse of the USSR

I added Samizdat to [[Category:Organizations and people who predicted the collapse of the USSR]] because of this reference, which talks about organizations and people who predicted the Soviet Union would collapse:

Various essays published in samizdat in the early 1970s were on similar lines, some quite specifically predicting the end of the Soviet empire.

Laqueur, Walter (1996). The Dream that Failed : Reflections on the Soviet Union. USA: Oxford University Press. ISBN: 0195102827. p. 188

Signed:Travb 14:41, 17 April 2006 (UTC)