Nikolai Vakhtin is University Professor of Arctic Social Studies at the European University, St Petersburg. Boris Firsov is Researcher Emeritus at the European University, St Petersburg.

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• Introduction: Nikolai Vakhtin, Boris FirsovChapter 1: The discourse of argumentation in totalitarian language and post-Soviet communication failures, Nikolai VakhtinChapter 2: Russian and Newspeak: between Myth and Reality, Maxim KrongauzChapter 3: ‘A Society that Speaks Concordantly’ or Mechanisms of Communication of Government and Society in Old and New Russia, Dmitrii KaluginChapter 4: Legal Literature ‘for the People’ and the Use of Language (Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century), Michel TissierChapter 5: ‘How to Write to the Newspapers’: Language and Power at the Birth of Soviet Public Language, Catriona KellyChapter 6:The Rhetoric of the Social(ist) Meeting in Literature and Cinema, Valerii V’iuginChapter 7: Was Official Discourse Hegemonic? Boris FirsovChapter 8: Attempts to overcome ‘public aphasia’: an analysis of public discussions in Russia at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Boris GladarevChapter 9: Allotment Associations in Search of a New Meaning, Alexandra KasatkinaChapter 10: ‘Distances of Vast Dimensions...’: Official versus Public Language (material from meetings of the organising committees of mass meetings and events, January–February 2012), Kapitolina FedorovaChapter 11: Insides made public: Talking publicly about personal in post-Soviet media culture (the example of the Fashion Verdict programme), Juliia Lerner, Klavdiia ZbenovichChapter 12: Distorted Speech and Aphasia in Satirical Counter-discourse: Oleg Kozyrev’s Internet Videos ‘Rulitiki’, Lara Ryazanova-ClarkeChapter 13: The Past and Future of Russian Public Language, Oleg KharkhordinAbout the Authors

Nikolai Vakhtin is University Professor of Arctic Social Studies at the European University, St Petersburg. Boris Firsov is Researcher Emeritus at the European University, St Petersburg.

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• Introduction: Nikolai Vakhtin, Boris FirsovChapter 1: The discourse of argumentation in totalitarian language and post-Soviet communication failures, Nikolai VakhtinChapter 2: Russian and Newspeak: between Myth and Reality, Maxim KrongauzChapter 3: ‘A Society that Speaks Concordantly’ or Mechanisms of Communication of Government and Society in Old and New Russia, Dmitrii KaluginChapter 4: Legal Literature ‘for the People’ and the Use of Language (Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century), Michel TissierChapter 5: ‘How to Write to the Newspapers’: Language and Power at the Birth of Soviet Public Language, Catriona KellyChapter 6:The Rhetoric of the Social(ist) Meeting in Literature and Cinema, Valerii V’iuginChapter 7: Was Official Discourse Hegemonic? Boris FirsovChapter 8: Attempts to overcome ‘public aphasia’: an analysis of public discussions in Russia at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Boris GladarevChapter 9: Allotment Associations in Search of a New Meaning, Alexandra KasatkinaChapter 10: ‘Distances of Vast Dimensions...’: Official versus Public Language (material from meetings of the organising committees of mass meetings and events, January–February 2012), Kapitolina FedorovaChapter 11: Insides made public: Talking publicly about personal in post-Soviet media culture (the example of the Fashion Verdict programme), Juliia Lerner, Klavdiia ZbenovichChapter 12: Distorted Speech and Aphasia in Satirical Counter-discourse: Oleg Kozyrev’s Internet Videos ‘Rulitiki’, Lara Ryazanova-ClarkeChapter 13: The Past and Future of Russian Public Language, Oleg KharkhordinAbout the Authors

Nikolai Vakhtin is University Professor of Arctic Social Studies at the European University, St Petersburg. Boris Firsov is Researcher Emeritus at the European University, St Petersburg.

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• Introduction: Nikolai Vakhtin, Boris FirsovChapter 1: The discourse of argumentation in totalitarian language and post-Soviet communication failures, Nikolai VakhtinChapter 2: Russian and Newspeak: between Myth and Reality, Maxim KrongauzChapter 3: ‘A Society that Speaks Concordantly’ or Mechanisms of Communication of Government and Society in Old and New Russia, Dmitrii KaluginChapter 4: Legal Literature ‘for the People’ and the Use of Language (Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century), Michel TissierChapter 5: ‘How to Write to the Newspapers’: Language and Power at the Birth of Soviet Public Language, Catriona KellyChapter 6:The Rhetoric of the Social(ist) Meeting in Literature and Cinema, Valerii V’iuginChapter 7: Was Official Discourse Hegemonic? Boris FirsovChapter 8: Attempts to overcome ‘public aphasia’: an analysis of public discussions in Russia at the beginning of the twenty-first century, Boris GladarevChapter 9: Allotment Associations in Search of a New Meaning, Alexandra KasatkinaChapter 10: ‘Distances of Vast Dimensions...’: Official versus Public Language (material from meetings of the organising committees of mass meetings and events, January–February 2012), Kapitolina FedorovaChapter 11: Insides made public: Talking publicly about personal in post-Soviet media culture (the example of the Fashion Verdict programme), Juliia Lerner, Klavdiia ZbenovichChapter 12: Distorted Speech and Aphasia in Satirical Counter-discourse: Oleg Kozyrev’s Internet Videos ‘Rulitiki’, Lara Ryazanova-ClarkeChapter 13: The Past and Future of Russian Public Language, Oleg KharkhordinAbout the Authors