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The circumstances underlying the development of
Soviet language policy (which has now become a type or model that has been
implemented in eastern Europe, China and elsewhere) were of course rooted in
the historical circumstances emerging from monolingual Czarist Russia, and the
desire to remedy the linguistic oppression inherent in that
model.
Harold Schiffman
12/8/2000