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The Vernaculars of Communism: Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe 1st edition
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The Vernaculars of Communism: Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe - Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europe
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.
Petre Petrov is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures at the University of Texas at Austin.
Lara Ryazanova-Clarke is 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.
244 pages, 1 black & white illustrations, 4 black & white tables, 1 black & white line drawings
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | December 17, 2014 |
| ISBN13 | 9781138792357 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 244 |
| Dimensions | 241 × 164 × 19 mm · 504 g |
| Language | English |
| Editor | Petrov, Petre (Princeton University, USA) |
| Editor | Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara (Edinburgh University, UK) |
