Russkij mat

[E. Wayles Browne]

>Very interesting anecdotes!  Regarding prison slang, I recall that there is
>a "real" (non-samizdat (=izdatizdat!?)) Russian-English Dictionary of Prison
>Slang,
TITLE:  Soviet prison camp speech; a survivor's glossary. Supplemented
                   by terms from the works of A. I. Solzenicyn. Compiled by
                   Meyer Galler and Harlan E. Marquess.

        AUTHOR:  Galler, Meyer.

     PUBLISHED:  [Madison] University of Wisconsin Press [1972]

      SUBJECTS:  Russian language--Slang--Dictionaries.
                 Prisoners--Soviet Union.

   DESCRIPTION:  216 p. 23 cm.

         NOTES:  English and Russian.
                 Bibliography: p. 51-56.


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