The Way of"Samizdat."
The Samizdat, approach to communicating an idea, a campaign or message is one that has long-time found popularity in public-schools world-wide. For whatever the cause of an individual they have with low-end technology and economical power employed this method as the means to their ends being underdogs they are. It is an approach that I have also been tempted to use and have been impressed with its impact without costs.
I will most definitely use it again.
Anyhow this is a defintion of the term Samizdat from a library resource from Kenston Institute whom specialise in printing lost “self-published” or Samizdat material from the early Cold-War and Soviet Russian era:
"Keston’s archive is renowned for its rich collection of samizdat, or self-published, literature, a phenomenon which developed rapidly in the mid-1960s and remained the intellectual mainstay of Soviet believers right up to the collapse of communism. In our archives samizdat means anything from handwritten scraps of paper, through the most primitive form of cyclostyling, to typing with a number of decreasingly legible carbon copies underneath, as even photocopiers in private hands were banned during the communist period. Such documents include appeals to the Soviet authorities against the closure of churches, petitions to free prisoners of conscience and dossiers on their ‘crimes’, transcripts of court proceedings against believers, spiritual testimonies and stories of conversion, prayers and Bible commentaries, and whole volumes of church history.
For 70 years Christian publishing was virtually banned in the Soviet Union. Some manuscripts, such as the writings of Fr Aleksandr Men, were secretly sent abroad for publishing, but many circulated clandestinely in the country without ever finding a printer abroad. Some, preserved in our archive, are spiritual classics of our age. We retain them for the day when they will be published and made available to the broad mass of Russian believers. One manuscript we have translated into English is The Unknown Homeland, an anonymous biography of Fr Pavel, who found his true vocation while incarcerated in a Siberian prison camp in the 1930s
the Initsiativniki) Andrei Sinyavsky and Yuli Daniel in 1966, the Soviet authorities tried but utterly failed to silence those who produced and circulated samizdat."
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