"Special" camps
camps for political crimes
Bendera
general in the Soviet army who betrayed his country during WWII
CED
Culture and Education Department
Chetezes
galoshes made of scraps of motor tires, after the Cheliabinsk tractor works
GULAG
Central Camp Administration, used also to mean camps in general
Kolkhoz
Communal farm
Kulak
a landed peasant in Czarist Russia
Lett
Latvian
Magara
Chinese oatmeal, basically cooked yellow grasses
Old Whiskers
Stalin
PPD
Production Planning Department
Taiga
the frozen Siberian woods
Valenki
knee length felt boots for winter wear
Vechorka
Slang for Vecheruyaya Moskva, an evening newspaper
Volk
wolf, the root of Volkovoi's name
Zek
abbreviation of Russian for prisoner
