Introduction / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke and Petre Petrov
Part I. Language Regimes of Stalinism
Linguistic turn a la Soviétique : the power of grammar, and the grammar of power / Evgenii Dobrenko
The Soviet gnomic : on the peculiarities of generic statements in Stalinist officialese / Petre Petrov
Aesopian language : the politics and poetics of naming the unnamable / Irina Sandomirskaja
Part II. Negotiating Codes of Communism in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe
From subject of action to object of description : the classes in the Romanian official discourse during communism / Calin Morar-Vulcu
Speaking Titoism : student opposition and the socialist language regime of Yugoslavia / James Robertson
Deviant dialectics : intertextuality, voice, and emotion in Czechoslovak Socialist Kritika / Jonathan L. Larson
"Birdwatchers of the world, unite!" : the language of Soviet ideology in translation / Samantha Sherry
Part III. Soviet Vernaculars after Communism
Linguistic mnemonics : the communist language variety in contemporary Russian public discourse / Lara Ryazanova-Clarke
"The golden age of Soviet Antiquity" : sovietisms in the discourse of left-wing political movements in post-Soviet Russia, 1991-2013 / Ilya Kukulin.
The vernaculars of communism : language, ideology and power in the Soviet Union and Eastern Europe. ISBN 9781138792357. Published by Routledge in 2015. Publication and catalogue information, links to buy online and reader comments.