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The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A
Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of
Russian peasants in the twentieth century through letters and
stories that trace their tragic history. In 1900, there were
100,000,000 peasants in Russia, but by mid-century their language
was no longer passed from parents to children, resulting in no
speakers of the dialect left today. In this study, Alexander D.
Nakhimovsky argues that for all the variability of local dialects
there was an underlying unity in them, which derived from their old
shared traditions and oral nature. Their unity is best manifested
in word formation, syntax, phraseology, and discourse. Different
social groups followed somewhat different paths through the maze of
Soviet history, and peasants' path was one of the most painful. The
chronological organization of the book and the analysis of
powerful, concise, and simple but expressive language of peasant
letters and stories culminate into an oral history of their tragic
Soviet experience.
The Language of Russian Peasants in the Twentieth Century: A
Linguistic Analysis and Oral History analyzes the social dialect of
Russian peasants in the twentieth century through letters and
stories that trace their tragic history. In 1900, there were
100,000,000 peasants in Russia, but by mid-century their language
was no longer passed from parents to children, resulting in no
speakers of the dialect left today. In this study, Alexander D.
Nakhimovsky argues that for all the variability of local dialects
there was an underlying unity in them, which derived from their old
shared traditions and oral nature. Their unity is best manifested
in word formation, syntax, phraseology, and discourse. Different
social groups followed somewhat different paths through the maze of
Soviet history, and peasants' path was one of the most painful. The
chronological organization of the book and the analysis of
powerful, concise, and simple but expressive language of peasant
letters and stories culminate into an oral history of their tragic
Soviet experience.
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