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The Soviet Model

The circumstances underlying the development of Soviet language policy (which has now become a type or model that has been implemented in eastern Europe, China and elsewhere) were of course rooted in the historical circumstances emerging from monolingual Czarist Russia, and the desire to remedy the linguistic oppression inherent in that model.[*]



Harold Schiffman
12/8/2000