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Marshall R Singer

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Jan/Feb
1998
Language Follows Power: The Linguistic Free Market in the Old Soviet Blocpremium content icon
Marshall R Singer

The waning use of Russian in the old Soviet bloc is a gauge of the severity of the Soviet collapse. What is prized now is German and, above all, English.

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