Language policy, language practice and language attitudes in the early Soviet Union
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چکیده
This essay is essentially divided into three parts. The first part is going to focus on early Soviet attitudes towards the Russian language itself, followed by a discussion of the early Soviet policies regarding non-Russian languages in the second part. The gradual shift away from the liberal language policies of the 1920s towards the new policies emerging in the late 1930s, overtly imposing Russification upon the non-Russian populations, will lead us to the third and final part of this essay, in which the author is trying to identify a number of possible explanations for this development.
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