Historical materialism book series, 1570-1522 ; volume 86
Contents
Glossary of names -- Introduction: The multiple dimensions of hegemony -- Hegemony in Russian social democracy before 1917 -- Orientology, philology and the politics of empire : traditional intellectuals in late-imperial Russia -- Verbal art and revolution : the living word -- Metamorphoses of hegemony in the period of the nep -- The new paradigm in linguistic science -- The revolution in the west and east : hegemony and the national question -- Hegemony : the decline and fall of a paradigm -- Ideology critique, positivism and Marxism : the paradoxical legacy of Nikolai Marr
Summary
In The Dimensions of Hegemony Craig Brandist offers a detailed analysis of debates around the cultural and linguistic aspects of proletarian leadership in revolutionary Russia. The result is a new perspective on critiques usually associated with sociolinguistic and post-colonial studies