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Languages in Conflict and War: Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Baltics

Languages in Conflict and War: Ukraine, the Caucasus, and the Baltics

Vamling, Karina
Kiss, Nadiya
Petersson, Bo

Hardcover

Series: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War

Foreign Language GeneralLinguisticsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 3032084180
ISBN13: 9783032084187
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Jan 15 2026
Pages: 332
Weight: 1.28
Height: 0.81 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English
This book explores language conflicts in Soviet successor states: Ukraine, the Russian North Caucasus, Georgia, and the Baltics. Current violent developments in these multiethnic countries with their shared legacies of Russian domination highlight the intertwining of language with conflict and war, reflecting confrontation and challenges to peace. It is shown how core values attached to language in identity formation and feelings of belonging or marginalization, along with attitudes to language use by the in-group in contrast to others, are easily subject to politicization. Forced migration, language erasure and shift, central in today's post-Soviet conflicts, are also experienced by minorities in the Russian North Caucasus--such as the Circassians--based on their history of Russian colonization. The book will be of interest to readers in a wide range of fields, including sociolinguistics, language policy, and language contact, as well as identity politics, migration linguistics, state and nation building, area studies, post-Soviet and European studies, political science, international relations, and peace and conflict studies.

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