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

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CONTRIBUTIONS TO THE SOCIOLOGY OF LANGUAGE brings to students, researchers and practitioners in all of the social and language-related sciences carefully selected book-length publications dealing with sociolinguistic theory, methods, findings and applications. It approaches the study of language in society in its broadest sense, as a truly international and interdisciplinary field in which various approaches, theoretical and empirical, supplement and complement each other. The series invites the attention of linguists, language teachers of all interests, sociologists, political scientists, anthropologists, historians etc. to the development of the sociology of language. 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