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Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] SeriesPublisher: Berlin/Boston : De Gruyter, Inc., 1998Copyright date: ©1998Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (312 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9783110805581
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953LOC classification:
  • P95.82.S65 -- S64 1998eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Historical challenges -- Chapter 1. Democracy and language in late imperial Russia -- Chapter 2. Divided speech communities of the Soviet Union -- Part II. Theoretical approaches -- Chapter 3. G.G. Shpet, linguistic structure, and the Eurasian imperative in Soviet language reform -- Chapter 4. N.Ia. Marr, language history, and the Stalin cultural revolution -- Part III. Practical experiments -- Chapter 5. Mass mobilizing for Russian literacy: scripts, grammar and style -- Chapter 6. "A revolution for the east": Latin alphabets and their polemics -- Part IV. Statist solutions -- Chapter 7. The official campaign for Russian language culture -- Chapter 8. Stalin's linguistic theories as cultural conquest -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Notes -- Archival sources -- References -- Index.
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Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Historical challenges -- Chapter 1. Democracy and language in late imperial Russia -- Chapter 2. Divided speech communities of the Soviet Union -- Part II. Theoretical approaches -- Chapter 3. G.G. Shpet, linguistic structure, and the Eurasian imperative in Soviet language reform -- Chapter 4. N.Ia. Marr, language history, and the Stalin cultural revolution -- Part III. Practical experiments -- Chapter 5. Mass mobilizing for Russian literacy: scripts, grammar and style -- Chapter 6. "A revolution for the east": Latin alphabets and their polemics -- Part IV. Statist solutions -- Chapter 7. The official campaign for Russian language culture -- Chapter 8. Stalin's linguistic theories as cultural conquest -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Notes -- Archival sources -- References -- Index.

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