Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Preface ix
5. Note on Contributors xi
6. Introduction
7. A Chronology of Change 3
8. Making Sense of the Cold War’s Collapse 15
9. The Pragmatics of Transition 25
10. I. The Collapse of Soviet Discourse
11. The Collapse of Empire and Search for Cultural Identity 37
12. Processes of Political Communication in the USSR 51
13. The Restructuring of Soviet Political Discourse 69
14. II. Political Vocabulary in Transition
15. From Comrades to Consumers 87
16. Breakthrough and Blind Alley 95
17. Opposition Discourse in Russia 111
18. Justice, Equality and Freedom 131
19. Continuity and Change 147
20. Translating the Transition 173
21. III. Discourse, Identity and Conflict
22. The Construction of Nation and State 191
23. Cognitive Dimensions of Identity 215
24. Defining Democracy 233
25. Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina 251
26. Index 267