Moscow Graffiti: Language and Subculture

by John Bushnell

First Published in 1990, Moscow Graffiti is a unique and unprecedented look at the graffiti that began to appear for the first time on the walls of Moscow and other Soviet cities in the late 1970s. John Bushnell first traces the social and cultural changes that fostered the emergence of a multifaceted Soviet subculture and the appearance of graffiti. He explains the common graffiti argot of Russian slang, English, and pictographs, and then...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1032885769
• ISBN13: 9781032885766
• Release Date: November 2024
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 270 Pages