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This book is unique in its kind. It is the first scholarly work to
attempt a comprehensive and fairly detailed look into the lingering
legacies of the communist totalitarian modes of thought and
expression in the new discourse forms of the post-totalitarian era.
The book gives also new and interesting insights into the ways the
new, presumably democratically-minded political elites in
post-totalitarian Eastern Europe, Russia, and China manipulate
language to serve their own political and economic agendas. The
book consists of ten discrete discussions, nine case-studies or
chapters and an introduction. Chapter 1 discusses patterns of
continuity and change in the conceptual apparatus and linguistic
habits of political science and sociology practiced in the Czech
Republic before and after 1989. Chapter 2 analyzes lingering
effects of communist propaganda language in the political discourse
and behavior in post-communist Poland. Chapter 3 analyzes the
legacy of Soviet semantics in post-Soviet Moldovan politics through
the prism of such politically contested words as "democracy,"
"democratization," and "people." Chapters 4 and 5 discuss the way
in which communist patterns of thought and expression manifest
themselves in the new political discourse in Romania and Bulgaria,
respectively. Chapter 6 examines phenomena of change and continuity
in the socio-linguistic and socio-political scene of post-Soviet
Latvia. Chapter 7 analyzes the extent to which the language of the
post-communist Romanian media differs from the official language of
the communist era. Chapter 8 examines the evolution of Russian
official discourse since the late eighties with a view of showing
"whether or not new phenomena in the evolution of post-Soviet
discourse represent new development or just a mutation of the
value-orientations of the old Soviet ideological apparatus."
Chapter 9 gives a detailed and lucid account of the evolution of
both official and non-official discourse in China since the end of
the Mao era.
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