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|Vladimir Bukovsky|''To Build a Castle: My Life as a Dissenter''}}
[[Samizdat]] (Russian, ''самиздат'', lit. "self-publishing") originally was a Soviet-era practice in which material which was censored or otherwise could not be officially printed (for political or other reasons) was reproduced via other means, such as mimeograph, typewriter or even handwriting and distributed ''sub rosa'', so as not to attract the attention of the authorities.
In a broader and more modern sense, [[Samizdat]] is any unpublished work which is reproduced and distributed by hand or other low-tech method.
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* Before the internet, [[w:Amateur press association|Amateur press associations]] were the paper equivalent of a modern email mailing list, and allowed small groups of enthusiasts to discuss their common interest in the form of a mailing compiled from contributions sent by their members to the APA's manager/editor, who assembled them into issues which were then sent back out to the APA's members.
* Similarly, early science fiction fandom abounded with low-circulation ''fanzines'' (from "fan magazine"), sometimes having "print runs" no larger than a dozen or so copies per issue.
* "Ribs" (Russian, ''рёбра'') were records pressed on used X-ray film during the era of the Soviet Union, as a means of bypassing censors and their crackdown on Western artists.
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