. . . "Samizdat (Russian: \u0441\u0430\u043C\u0438\u0437\u0434\u0430\u0301\u0442; IPA: [s\u0259m\u0268z\u02C8dat]) was a key form of dissident activity across the Soviet bloc in which individuals reproduced censored publications by hand and passed the documents from reader to reader."@en .