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The Vernaculars of Communism: Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

The Vernaculars of Communism: Language, Ideology and Power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe

Petrov, Petre
Ryazanova-Clarke, Lara

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in the History of Russia and Eastern Europ

General Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral SociologySocial Movements

ISBN10: 1138792357
ISBN13: 9781138792357
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Jan 1 2015
Pages: 244
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English

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.

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