General Information

Author/Creator

Figes, Orlando, 1959-

Language

English.

Published

New Haven, CT : Yale University Press, 1999.

Physical Description

198 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Contributors

Contributor

Kolonitskii, B. I., 1955-

Contents/Summary

Summary

"This is a book about the ways in which language was used to define identities and create new meanings in the politics of 1917. Language is defined in the broadest sense - songs and texts, symbolic flags and emblems, pictures and monuments, banners and slogans, common speech and rumour, dress and body language, ritualized demonstrations by the crowd, parades and other ceremonies to represent and show allegiance to the idea of 'the revolution'"--introduction

Subjects

Subject

Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921 > Language.

Soviet Union > History > Revolution, 1917-1921 > Psychological aspects.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

Orlando Figes and Boris Kolonitskii.

Content

1. The desacralization of the Monarchy: rumours and the downfall of the Romanovs -- 2. The symbolic revolution -- 3. The cult of the leader -- 4. Languages of citizenship, languages of class: workers and the social order -- 5. The language of the revolution in the village -- Image of the enemy -- Conclusion.

Library Special Collection

Donation of Anatole Shub

ISBN

0300081065

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	General collection	947.084/1 FIG		General Stacks	-

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