Title The vernaculars of communism : language, ideology and power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe / edited by Petre Petrov and Lara Ryazanova-Clarke

Published Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource Series Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; 21 Routledge studies in the history of Russia and Eastern Europe ; 21. Contents pt. 1. Language regimes of Stalinism -- pt. 2. Negotiating codes of communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe -- pt. 3. Soviet vernaculars after Communism Summary "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"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Vendor-supplied metadata Subject Language policy -- Soviet Union -- History Language policy -- Europe, Eastern -- History Communism and linguistics -- Soviet Union -- History Communism and linguistics -- Europe, Eastern -- History Communism -- Social aspects -- Soviet Union -- History Communism -- Social aspects -- Europe, Eastern -- History Power (Social sciences) -- Soviet Union -- History Power (Social sciences) -- Europe, Eastern -- History POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies -- Communism & Socialism. Communism and linguistics Communism -- Social aspects Language policy Politics and government Power (Social sciences) SUBJECT Soviet Union -- Politics and government. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125832 Europe, Eastern -- Politics and government -- 1945-1989. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh90000579 Subject Eastern Europe Soviet Union Genre/Form Electronic books History Form Electronic book Author Petrov, Petre, editor. Ryazanova-Clarke, Larissa, 1957- editor. ISBN 9781317647485 1317647483 9781315762173 131576217X 9781317647461 1317647467 9781317647478 1317647475 9780815367369 0815367368

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