The Politics of Language Reform in Kazakhstan

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Prefatory Remarks VII
3. Contents IX
4. Introduction 1
5. Part One: Languages of the Soviet West
6. Language Development and Policy in Estonia 13
7. Belorussification, Russification and Polonization Trends in the Belorussian Language 1890–1982 37
8. Language Politics in the Ukraine 57
9. Part Two: Languages of the Caucasus and Crimea
10. Crimean Tatar: The Fate of a Severed Tongue 109
11. Politics and Linguistics in Daghestan 125
12. The Formation and Development of Literary Avar 143
13. Georgian: A Noble Past, A Secure Future 163
14. Part Three: Languages of Soviet Central Asia
15. The Politics of Language Reform in Kazakhstan 183
16. Language Development in Soviet Uzbekistan 205
17. Part Four: Languages of Interior Russia
18. The Mordvinian Languages: A Survival Saga 237
19. Remarks on the Chuvash Language: Past, Present and Future 265
20. Part Five: A Non-Territorial Language
21. Di Yiddish-Imperye: The Dashed Hopes for a Yiddish Cultural Empire in the Soviet Union 277
22. Part Six: The Non-Russian Languages and Russian
23. The Impact of Group Bilingualism in the SU 313
24. The Non-Russian Languages and the Challenge of Russian: The Eastern versus the Western Tradition 345
25. About the Authors 369
26. Index 373