Declared the country's official language in 1996, Ukrainian has weathered constant challenges by post-Soviet political forces promoting Russian. Michael Moser provides the definitive account of the policies and ethno-political dynamics underlying this unique cultural struggle.
Price: $66.00
Pages: 506
Publisher: Ibidem Press
Imprint: Ibidem Press
Series: Soviet and Post-Soviet Politics and Society
Publication Date:
24 June 2013
Trim Size: 8.27 X 5.83 in
ISBN: 9783838204970
Format: Paperback
BISACs:
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Regional Studies, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Freedom, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Russian & Soviet, HISTORY / Russia / General
This superb book offers a dispassionate, measured, and detailed analysis of how both Ukrainian and Russian have fared in independent Ukraine. Moser understands language and Moser understands policy, and he manages to combine both skills in an utterly persuasive monograph that will set the standard for Ukrainian language and policy studies for years to come.
Dr. Michael Moser is Professor of Slavic Linguistics and Philology at the University of Vienna, Ukrainian Free University at Munich, and Pázmány Péter Catholic University at Budapest. He has more than 250 publications to his name.
Preface
Introduction
1. Loyalty toward the small large language
2. The European Charter of Regional or Minority Languages in Ukraine
3. Viktor Yanukovych and the Ukrainian language
4. The Russian World and the "compatriots"
5. The hawk in Ukrainian language policy: Vadym Kolesnichenko
6. Dmytro Tabachnyk and the Ukrainian language in the educational sphere
7. Olena Bondarenko and the Ukrainian language in the electronic media
8. The draft law of 7 September 2010
9. Anticipating the law: Serhiy Kivalov, the Constitutional Court, and the Ukrainian language in the courts of law
10. Vadym Kolesnichenko's and Serhiy Kivalov's draft law "On Principles of the State Language Policy"
11. Summary and outlook
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