Soviet Language Planning 1917–53

Crisp, Simon

doi:10.1007/978-1-349-20301-7_2

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“…) 2. The paradoxes and inconsistencies of Soviet language policies is a vast field that has been partly explored by Crisp (1989), Kreindler (1982;1985b;, Lewis (1972), andPool (1978;1980). It still awaits treatment by ex-Soviet scholars.…”

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Multilingualism in the Successor States of the Soviet Union

Kreindler¹

1997

Ann Rev Appl Ling

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The Soviet Union was a country with one of the most complex language situations in the world. Over one hundred nationalities were listed in its last 1989 census, ranging in size from 145 million Russians (50.8 percent of the population) to the ‘26 Peoples of the North’ who together numbered only 184,448. For most of these nationalities, the majority claimed that their national language was their mother tongue. However, knowledge of Russian as first or second language was claimed by about 62 percent of the non-Russians. Only 4.2 percent of the Russians reported fluency in one of the national languages, though among the Russians living outside the Russian Federation, bilingualism was about 19 percent (Anderson and Silver 1990, Arutiunian,et al.1992, Goskomstat 1991, Haarmann 1992).

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Multilingualism in the Successor States of the Soviet Union

Kreindler¹

1997

Ann Rev Appl Ling

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“…The Soviet press became the most important literacy resource for the Soviet Union, codifying new political terminology and constructing a language for communist party "insiders" (Brooks 2000, Literacy Under Authority--8 12-13). Importantly, Soviet Russian linguists and language planners exported their theories, policies, and practices to Central Asia and Mongolia, endorsing an international Soviet identity and appeals to linguistic modernization and efficiency, one that would first be expressed through Latinization movements and then, after 1938, by Cyrillicization (Crisp 1989;Smith 1998).…”

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Literacy under Authority: The Mongolian Cultural Campaigns

Marzluf¹

2016

J of Asian Stud

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“…Russification was at first slowly initiated under tsarist rule. However, when the Bolsheviks came to power in 1917, these policies became more direct and organized in form (Crisp, 1989; Kirkwood, 1989; Martin, 2001; Pavlenko, 2008). One of the most effective tools of Russification was the Russian language itself.…”

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Invisibility and Ownership of Language: Problems of Representation in Russian Language Textbooks

Azimova¹,

Johnston²

2012

The Modern Language Journal

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Using the 2 theoretical lenses of representation (Barthes, 1977) and ownership of language (Higgins, 2003), this article offers a critical analysis of representations of Russian speakers in 9 widely used Russian language textbooks aimed at university‐level learners. Particular attention is paid to representations of Russian speakers other than white Orthodox Christian ethnic Russians. Findings indicate that there are virtually no representations of such “other” speakers in the materials under investigation. This absence is framed as an erasure (hooks, 1992), a violent removal that significantly misrepresents the actual diversity of speakers of Russian and restricts putative ownership of the Russian language. The authors argue that not only is this inaccurate portrayal pedagogically problematic; it is also politically so, as it coincides with a rising tide of ethnic Russian nationalism in the Russian Federation. The article ends with a call for more accurate portrayals of the actual diversity of users of Russian.

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Soviet Language Planning 1917–53

Cited by 9 publications

References 4 publications

Multilingualism in the Successor States of the Soviet Union

Multilingualism in the Successor States of the Soviet Union

Literacy under Authority: The Mongolian Cultural Campaigns

Invisibility and Ownership of Language: Problems of Representation in Russian Language Textbooks

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