Mastering the Perverse
State Building and Language "Purification" in Early Soviet Russia
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4213670 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Michael S Gorham (0000-0002-4475-0706, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2000 |
| Volume | 59 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 133-153 |
| Publication date | 2000-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Slavic Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0037-6779 • E-ISSN: 2325-7784 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2696907 |
| OpenAlex | W2323278292 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 12 |
They cannot represent themselves, they must be represented. Their representative must at the same time appear as their master, as an authority over them, as an unlimited governmental power that protects them against the other classes and sends them the rain and the sunshine from above. The political influence of the small peasants...finds its final expression in the executive power subordinating society to itself.-Karl Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," 1852This pursuit of new words, this fornication with language and excessive use of regional lexicons, I personally find most depressing. You must excuse me, but in this desire to decorate fiction withnon-literarywords one senses- apart from the littering of language with rubbish-a bourgeois aesthetic at work: the desire to decorate an icon with foil, paper flowers, and "grapes." This is bad.-Maksim Gor'kii,Selected Letters, 1926
Art · Bourgeoisie · Excuse · Icon · Linguistics · Literature · Political science · Politics · Power (physics · Sociology · State (computer science · Computer Science · Eastern European Communism and Reforms · Historical Geopolitical and Social Dynamics · History · Law · Philosophy · Soviet and Russian History
Discours sur la langue, idéologie et 'édification linguistique' dans la RSS de Biélorussie, 1920-1939
Normalizing a new language hierarchy
Changing language policies and ideologies in Kazakhstan
Overcoming Aggressive Monolingualism
Bad Words Are Not Allowed
Sounds and Scripts of Modernity
Abandoned or Merely Lost inTranslation
Soviet Hegemony of Form
| Citations per year | 0.35 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2003 - 2024 (22) |
| Highly cited | No |