Public Debate in Russia

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.

• 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