Speaking in Soviet Tongues - Language Culture and the Politics of Voice in Revolutionary Russia

Examining the dynamics of language development in a changing political and social order, Gorham shows how language cultures struggled to gain authority in Russia after the Revolution of 1917.

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Summary

This work explores how early Soviet language culture gave rise to unparalleled verbal creativity and utopian imagination, while sowing the seeds for perhaps the most notorious forms of Orwellian "newspeak" known to the modern era.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Gorham, Michael S. Gorham
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 02.06.2003
• EAN: 9780875803135
• ISBN: 978-0-87580-313-5
• No. of pages: 277
• Dimensions: 283 mm x 165 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 568 g
• Series: NIU Series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies; Niu Slavic, East European, and
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous