Legacies of Totalitarian Language in the Discourse Culture of the Post-Totalitarian Era The Case of Eastern Europe, Russia, and China

This book is unique among its kind-it is the first scholarly work to attempt a comprehensive and detailed look into the lingering legacies of the Communist totalitarian modes of thought and expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era. The book also gives new and interesting insights into the ways the presumably democratically minded political elites in post-totalitarian Eastern Europe, Russia, and China manipulate language to serve their own political and economic agendas. The book consists of ten discrete discussions: nine case-studies and an introduction.