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In 1950 Stalin initiated and participated in the “linguistic discussion” in Pravda. The results were the rout of Marr's “new theory of language”, prevalent in the USSR since the 1930s, and the introduction of “Stalinist language teaching”. The article analyses theoretical and ideological grounds of Marrism, its personal and political preconditions, as well as strategies for representation of power...
Maksim Shapir was preparing this paper for the present issue of Russian Literature at the time of his death. The text was fully conceived, but he did not finish writing it. Only his working materials were preserved, and are published here.Shapir's approach is as follows. Bakhtin/Voloshinov's book expresses totalitarian, anti-philological, postmodernist ideology. For them, the sign is social: there...
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