Multilingualism in Post-Soviet Countries
, by Pavlenko, Aneta- ISBN: 9781847690876 | 1847690874
- Cover: Hardcover
- Copyright: 11/5/2008
"The dissolution of the USSR created conditions for a unique sociolinguistic experiment in which fourteen countries, previously united by the same language and political system, were engaged in a nation-building process, creating new linguistic regimes. Two decades later, how did these countries fare in their struggle to initiate a shift from Russian to the titular languages? Which ones succeeded and which ones restored Russian as an official language? How did they go about articulating the rights of linguistic minorities? Did Russian give way to the new lingua franca, English? This collection offers answers to these and many other questions through detailed analyses of language and education policies and practices in post-Soviet countries."--BOOK JACKET.