The vernaculars of communism : language, ideology and power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

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The vernaculars of communism : language, ideology and power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

edited by Petre Petrov and Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

(RoutledgeCurzon studies on the history of Russia and Eastern Europe, 21)

Routledge, 2015

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Includes bibliographical references and index

Contents of Works

  • Part I. Language regimes of Stalinism
  • Linguistic turn à la Soviétique : the power of grammar, and the grammar of power / Evgeny Dobrenko
  • The Soviet gnomic : on the peculiarities of generic statements in Stalinist officialese / Petre Petrov
  • Aesopian language : the politics and poetics of naming the unnameable / 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 / Călin 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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