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- Language Politics and Problems in Post-Soviet Region
- Catalog number CEUS-U 520
- William Fierman
This graduate colloquium will examine language policies and problems in the countries that emerged from the Soviet Union. The first third of the course will be devoted to essential general background for viewing language policies and problems in the countries that we will look at during the remainder of the course. We will start with a brief examination of Soviet language policies and their results. Following this we will consider demographic change in the Soviet and post-Soviet space, and then general questions suggested by the literature on language problems in countries from other regions of the world. Most of the rest of the course will be devoted to language policies and problems in individual countries or regions of the former Soviet Union. At the last session(s) students will present their research papers.
