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Samizdat in general, and ethnic samizdat in particular, constituted the major manifestation of Soviet dissent. Moreover, samizdat reports of dissident activities rendered them significant acts in the overall social and political life of the USSR.

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Zisserman-Brodsky, D. (2003). Conclusion. In: Constructing Ethnopolitics in the Soviet Union: Samizdat, Deprivation, and the Rise of Ethnic Nationalism. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781403973627_9

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