Research Catalog

Title

The battle for Ukrainian : a comparative perspective / edited by Michael S. Flier and Andrea Graziosi.

Publication

• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, [2017]
• Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Flier, Michael S.
• Graziosi, Andrea, 1954-

Description

x, 625 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm.

Summary

In 1863 the Valuev Circular restricted the use of the Ukrainian language in the Russian Empire. In the 150 years since, Ukrainian has followed a tortuous path, reflecting or anticipating tsarist, Soviet, and post-Soviet history. This volume documents that path, studying the language's emergence in southern Rusþ, its shifting fortunes in the Russian Empire and Soviet Union, and its variable status after 1991. Ukrainian can serve as a useful prism for assessing 150 years of imperial disintegration and reformation, and worldwide state and nation building--a period in which other languages have been created, promoted, and repressed, or have come to coexist in multilingual nations. Case studies of Gaelic, Finnish, Yiddish, the Baltic group, and of language policy in Canada, India, and the former Yugoslavia illuminate similarities and differences in chronological, comparative, international, and transnational terms. The result is an interdisciplinary study that is essential for understanding language, history, and politics in Ukraine and in the post-imperial world.--

Series Statement

Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies

Uniform Title

Harvard papers in Ukrainian studies.

Subject

• Language policy > Ukraine
• Language policy > Cross-cultural studies
• Ukrainian language > Political aspects
• International relations
• Language policy
• Ukraine > Relations > Russia (Federation)
• Russia (Federation) > Relations > Ukraine
• Russia (Federation)
• Ukraine

Genre/Form

Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

The Ukrainian language question: linguistics, history, politics -- Ukrainian, Russian: poles apart? / Michael S. Flier -- Against all odds: Ukrainian in the Russian Empire in the second half of the nineteenth century / Johannes Remy -- The "doubling of hallelujah" for the "bastard tongue": the Ukrainian language question in Russian Ukraine, 1905-1916 / Andrii Danylenko -- The fate of the "Ruthenian or Little Russian" (Ukrainian) language in Austrian Galicia (1772-1867) / Michael A. Moser -- Ukrainian in Austria-Hungary (1905-1918) and interwar Eastern Europe (1918-1939) / Jan Fellerer -- An empire of substitutions: the language factor in the Russian Revolution / Michael G. Smith -- Bolshevik language policy as a reflection of the ideas and practice of Communist construction, 1919-1933 / Hennadii Yefimenko -- Language policy as a political linguistics: the implicit model of linguistics in the discussion of the norms of Ukrainian and Belarusian in the 1930s / Patrick Seriot -- The Ukrainian language under totalitarianism and total war / Yurii Shapoval -- Wings to lift the truth up high: the role of language for the Shistdesiatnyky / Simone A. Bellezza -- Language, status, and state loyalty in Ukraine / Dominque Arel -- Language attitudes in independent Ukraine: differentiation and evolution / Volodymyr Kulyk -- Purism and pluralism: language use trends in popular culture in Ukraine since independence / Laada Bilaniuk -- Ukrainian language legislation and the national crisis / Bohdan Azhniuk -- Models for comparison -- Language, poiltics and the state(s): reflections from Ireland / Tony Crowley -- The rise and dynamics of the normative isomorphism of language, nation, and state in Central Europe / Tomasz Kamusella -- When the West meets the East: Slavia Romana at the crossroads / Anita Peti-Stantic -- The formation of the Finnish polity within the Russian Empire: language, representation, and the construction of popular political platforms, 1863-1906 / Jussi Kurunmaki and Ilkka Liikanen -- The divergent fates of Yiddish and Hebrew / Zvi Gitelman -- When is language a language? The case of former Yugoslavia / Robert D. Greenberg -- India and the Soviet model: the linguistic state reorganization and the problem of Hindi / Andrea Graziosi -- After status reversal: the use of titular languages and the Russian in the Baltic countries / Martin Ehala -- The art of defining linguistic minorities in Quebec and Canada / Francois Charbonneau.

Call Number

JFE 21-4167

ISBN

• 9781932650174
• 1932650172

LCCN

• 2017013602
• 9781932650174

OCLC

992563580

Title

The battle for Ukrainian : a comparative perspective / edited by Michael S. Flier and Andrea Graziosi.

Publisher

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, [2017]

Distributor

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, [2017]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Harvard Papers in Ukrainian Studies

Harvard papers in Ukrainian studies.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Local Note

ED: HARVARD UNIVERSITY. PAPERS BASED ON 2014 CONFERENCE. DIST. BY HARVARD UNIVERSITY PRESS.

Added Author

Flier, Michael S., editor.

Graziosi, Andrea, 1954- editor.

Other Standard Identifier

9781932650174 52995

Research Call Number

JFE 21-4167