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Alexander Motyl: The Demise of Soviet Language

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

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It was more than evident last year that the ideology of the Brezhnev period—that coherent world view, that set of concepts that structured Soviet reality—was on its last legs. Significantly, that particular ideology is now quite dead. It is no longer on its last legs; it is no longer dying; it has been eliminated from political discourse within the Soviet Union. One may go so far as to say that Marxism-Leninism is virtually absent from Soviet discourse as well. One example is this year's May Day slogans. They could have been found at any peace demonstration in the United States. They have nothing to do with that which we knew as communism in the Soviet Union.

Type
Part I: The View From Above
Information
Nationalities Papers , Volume 18 , Issue 1: The Soviet Nationalities against Gorbachev , Spring 1990 , pp. 14 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © 1990 Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe 

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