Language Policy in the former Soviet Union


Handout for LING 540, Language Policy

H. Schiffman, Instructor

 

Some Bibliography

Beer, William R. and James E. Jacob, ed. 1985. Language Policy and National Unity. Totowa, NJ: Rowman & Allanheld.
Breton, Roland. Geolinguistics: Language Dynamics and Ethnolinguistic Geography Ottawa U. Press, 1991.
(Chaps 2.3 and 6.1)
Brubaker, Rogers W. 1992. "Citizenship Struggles in Soviet Successor States." International Migration Review 26(2): 269-291.
Collins,-Daniel-E. 'The Tower of Babel Undone in a Soviet Pentecost: A Linguistic Myth of the First Five-Year Plan' Slavic-and-East-European-Journal 1998, 42, 3, fall, 423-443.
Comrie, Bernard. The Languages of the Soviet Union ,
Cambridge Language Surveys. 		Cambridge U. Press, 1981
Grenoble, Lenore A. Language Policy in the Soviet Union. Dordrecht: Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003
Kirkwood, Michael (ed.) Language Planning in the Soviet Union, New York: St. Martin's Press, 1990.
Knowles, Francis. 1990. "Language Planning in the Soviet Baltic Republics: An Analysis of Demographic and Sociological Trends." Chapter in Kirkwood, 1990.
Landau, Jacob M. and Barbara Kellner-Heinkele. Politics of language in the ex-Soviet Muslim states : Azerbayjan, Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Turkmenistan, and Tajikistan Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, 2001
P119.32.A783 L36 2001
L'Hermitte, René Marr, Marrisme, Marristes: une page de l'histoire de la linguistique soviétique. Paris: Institut d'Etudes Slaves, 1987.
P85 M25 L47 1987.
Leprêtre, Marc 'Language Policies in the Soviet Successor States: a brief assessment on language, linguistic rights and national identity.' Papeles del Este, No. 3 (2002)
Lewis, Glyn. Multilingualism in the Soviet Union the Hague: Mouton, 1972.
Misiunas, Romuald J. 1990. "Baltic Nationalism and Soviet Language Policy: From Russification to Constitutional Amendment."Chapter in Soviet Nationality Policies: Ruling Ethnic Groups in the USSR, Henry R. Huttenbach, ed. (New York: Mansell, 1990).
National Geographic Society Peoples of the Soviet Union , Map, 1990
Schlyter, Birgit Language Policies in Present-Day Central Asia. MOST Journal on Multicultural Societies, Vol. 3, No. 2
Schlyter, Birgit "Changing Language Loyalties in Central Asia" in Handbook of Bilingualism Bhatia and Ritchie, (eds.) Blackwell, 2004
Smith, Michael G. Language and power in the creation of the USSR, 1917-1953
Berlin ; New York : Mouton de Gruyter, 1998. 		P95.82.S65 S64 1998
Tishkov, Valery Ethnicity Nationalism and Conflict in and After the Soviet Union: The Mind Aflame. (International Peace Research Institute, Oslo (PRIO) Sage Publications Ltd.
Trond Trosterud's Soviet Census Website: Soviet Census Material and other data... U. of Tromsjø (Norway)
Trond Trosterud's Soviet minority language material: Uralic languages of northern Eurasia and other data... U. of Tromsjø (Norway)
Weinreich, Uriel. "The Russification of Soviet Minority Languages." Problems of Communism 6:46-57.

Wright, Sue, ed. 2000. Language policy and language issues in the successor states of the former USSR. Buffalo : Multilingual Matters.
Woolhiser, Curt. Language Ideology and Language Conflict in Post-Soviet Belarus  
Wurm, S. Turkic Peoples of the USSR: Their Historical Background, Their Languages and the Development of Soviet Linguistic Policy. London: Central Asian Research Centre. 1954.
NDSU Bibliography North Dakota State University bibliography on Volga Germans.  

 

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Harold F. Schiffman, haroldfs@ccat.sas.upenn.edu , last updated Feb. 25, 2002