The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A Linguistic Analysis and Oral History - Paperback

by Alexander D. Nakhimovsky (Author)

This book analyzes the social dialect of Russian peasants in the twentieth century through their letters and stories. It constitutes an oral history of peasants' tragic Soviet past, and argues that for all their variability, local peasant dialects maintained an underlying unity throughout the century.

Author Biography

Alexander D. Nakhimovsky is visiting scholar at the Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia at New York University.