Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953Explores the cultural and ethnic aspects of the early Soviet era, focusing on the way the Bolsheviks and other groups used language. Covers the divided speech communities of the late imperial and early Soviet eras, how linguists contributed to Soviet cultural and national policies during the 1920s and 30s, the successes and failures of the major language reform projects during the 1920s, and the period between 1932 and 1953 when the party state imposed new standards of russification on the country as a whole. The author concludes that while the opportunities and constraints of language reform may have given Soviet leaders their most enduring insights into relations, they learned that language was an essential tool of the dialectical process of history and also a troublesome and treacherous dimension of the human experience. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR |
Contents
Introduction | 1 |
Democracy and language in late imperial Russia | 15 |
Divided speech communities of the Soviet Union | 35 |
G G Shpet linguistic structure and the Eurasian imperative | 74 |
N Ia Marr language history and the Stalin cultural revolution | 82 |
35 | 96 |
Latin alphabets and their | 102 |
scripts grammar | 111 |
The official campaign for Russian language culture | 143 |
Stalins linguistic theories as cultural conquest | 162 |
Conclusion | 175 |
Abbreviations and acronyms | 181 |
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