Dissident writers and underground publishers, who distributed samizdat during the decades of dictatorship, are bringing out some of these same works in regular editions.

The underground field is virtually nonexistent; almost all the underground publishers have gone belly up.

But after Khrushchev was deposed, Solzhenitsyn's works were again banned throughout the Soviet Union and were only available through underground publishers.

After the Revolutions of 1989 some of the underground publishers in Poland transformed into regular and legal publishing houses.

It avoided the direct market of comic shops and made connections with underground publishers, zinesters, indie record labels and other subcultural scenes.

He then began working with underground publishers, contributing poems and supporting the dissident culture.

His son is "underground" publisher Adam Parfrey.

He was also a member of the management of one of the biggest underground publishers: NOWa.

Would-be emigres, underground publishers, rebel priests, former political prisoners and human rights advocates are fussed over at embassy receptions.

The period of "Communist apartheid," as Czeslaw Bielecki, an underground publisher, has called the era, seems to be over.