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Encyclopaedia of Soviet Life Hardcover - 1991
by Ilya Zemtsov (Editor)
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- Title Encyclopaedia of Soviet Life
- Author Ilya Zemtsov (Editor)
- Binding Hardcover
- Pages 388
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Routledge
- Date 1991-01
- ISBN 9780887383502 / 0887383505
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Eastern Europe
- Cultural Region: Russian
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 89-77891
- Dewey Decimal Code 947.084
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- Library Journal, 09/01/1990, Page 0
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Hardback. New. A by-product of the amazing changes now taking place within the Soviet Union is a change in rhetoric no less than reality. Under Gorbachev, the Russian language has been changing parallel with novoe politichaskoe myshenie - new political thinking - with the effect that such new expressions as have flooded the Russian language clash with the less yielding realities of Soviet economy and society. The purpose of this volume is to clarify this dynamic in Soviet life, in which stagnation and decay confront hopes and expectations for liberalization. Zemtsov argues that the Soviet political language is self-contradictory, fractured into polarities of good and evil and thus depriving the Russian language of its basic subtlety, coherence, and inner logic. This work brings to life the Orwellian world of double-speak in a post-totalitarian environment. The Soviet language has two basic components: fictions which Communist ideology proclaims as reality, and realities that are portrayed in the…
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