This book examines some of the important linguistic changes that have taken place in Eastern Europe since 1991. Though it is early to draw definitive conclusions, the contributions provide a preliminary understanding of the new language situation of post-Soviet Russia.

General Editor's Introduction Notes on the Contributors Preface Introduction; J.A.Dunn The Transformation of Russian from a Language of the Soviet Type to a Language of the Western Type; J.A.Dunn The Development of the Political Metaphor in the Post-Soviet Period; L.Ferm Sociolinguistic Transformations in Rapidly Changing Societies: Russia and Ukraine; A.Krouglov Below the Republican Level: Political Origins and Social Status of the Literary Komi-Permiak Language; S.Lallukka The Russian Language 'On the Brink': The Linguistic Situation in Present-Day Russia; V.M.Mokienko The Terminology of Modern Russian: Ultranationalism and Antisemitism; W.Moskovich Reality and Language Games in Contemporary Russian; B.Norman Elements of Persuasion in the Language of Russian Television Advertising; L.Ryazanova-Clarke French Loan-Words in the Ideolects of Russian Immigrants in Francophone Belgium; N.Stangé-Zhirovova The Relationship Between Language and Society in the Writings of Aleksandr Potebnja; W.Ziel Index of Subjects and Names Index of Words and Phrases