Language and Power in the Creation of the USSR, 1917-1953 / / Michael G. Smith.

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DGBA Linguistics and Semiotics 1990 - 1999
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Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter Mouton, , [2012]
©1998
Year of Publication:2012
Edition:Reprint 2012
Language:English
Series:Contributions to the Sociology of Language [CSL] , 80
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Physical Description:1 online resource (294 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • i-iv
  • 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
  • 303-304