Social and political vocabulary in successive editions of S. I. Ozhegov’s Russian Language D ictionary

Jan Sosnowski

Instytut Rusycystyki Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego

Abstract

S. I. Ozhegov’s Dictionary, since its first edition in 1949, has been appearing in successive
editions from the Soviet times to recent post-Soviet reality. Since 1992 it is co-authored by
N. Y. Shvedova. The article compares several entries related to social and political affairs, collected
from the principal editions of the Dictionary. The analyzed entries include the following
lexemes: democracy, capitalism, communism, socialism, party, trade union. The main goal of the
article is to show the evolution of the respective entries and to characterize the crucial differences
between yarious editions.

Keywords:

social and political vocabulary Ozhegov’s R ussian Language Dictionary