language, ideology and power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe /
First Statement of Responsibility
edited by Petre Petrov (Assistant professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin), Lara Ryazanova-Clarke (Head of Russian and academic director of the Princess Dashkova Russia Centre in the School of Literatures, Languages and Cultures at the University of Edinburgh).
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION
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xii, 229 pages :
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illustration ;
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24 cm.
SERIES
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Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ;
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21
INTERNAL BIBLIOGRAPHIES/INDEXES NOTE
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
CONTENTS NOTE
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Introduction / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke and Petre Petrov -- Part I. Language Regimes of Stalinism -- Linguistic turn a la Soviétique : the power of grammar, and the grammar of power / Evgenii Dobrenko -- The Soviet gnomic : on the peculiarities of generic statements in Stalinist officialese / Petre Petrov -- Aesopian language : the politics and poetics of naming the unnamable / Irina Sandomirskaja -- Part II. Negotiating Codes of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe -- From subject of action to object of description : the classes in the Romanian official discourse during communism / Calin Morar-Vulcu -- Speaking Titoism : student opposition and the socialist language regime of Yugoslavia / James Robertson -- Deviant dialectics : intertextuality, voice, and emotion in Czechoslovak Socialist Kritika / Jonathan L. Larson -- "Birdwatchers of the world, unite!" : the language of Soviet ideology in translation / Samantha Sherry -- Part III. Soviet Vernaculars after Communism -- Linguistic mnemonics : the communist language variety in contemporary Russian public discourse / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke -- "The golden age of Soviet Antiquity" : sovietisms in the discourse of left-wing political movements in post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2013 / Ilya Kukulin.
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SUMMARY OR ABSTRACT
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"The political revolutions which established state socialism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe were accompanied by revolutions in the word, as the communist project implied not only remaking the world but also renaming it. As new institutions, social roles, rituals and behaviours emerged, so did language practices that designated, articulated and performed these phenomena. This book examines the use of communist language in the Stalinist and post-Stalinist periods. It goes beyond characterising this linguistic variety as crude 'newspeak,' showing how official language was much more complex--the medium through which important political-ideological messages were elaborated, transmitted and also contested, revealing contradictions, discursive cleavages and performative variations. The book examines the subject comparatively across a range of East European countries besides the Soviet Union, and draws on perspectives from a range of scholarly disciplines--sociolinguistics, anthropology, literary and cultural studies, historiography, and translation studies"--
TOPICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Communism and linguistics-- Europe, Eastern-- History.
Communism and linguistics-- Soviet Union-- History.
Communism-- Social aspects-- Europe, Eastern-- History.
Communism-- Social aspects-- Soviet Union-- History.
Language policy-- Europe, Eastern-- History.
Language policy-- Soviet Union-- History.
Power (Social sciences)-- Europe, Eastern-- History.
Power (Social sciences)-- Soviet Union-- History.
Communism and linguistics.
Communism-- Social aspects.
Ideologie.
Kommunismus.
Language policy.
Macht.
Political science.
Politische Soziologie.
Power (Social sciences)
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
GEOGRAPHICAL NAME USED AS SUBJECT
Europe, Eastern, Politics and government, 1945-1989.