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Record Nr.

UNINA9910787420503321

Autore

Brandist Craig <1963->

Titolo

The dimensions of hegemony : language, culture and politics in revolutionary Russia / / by Craig Brandist

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Leiden, Netherlands ; ; Boston, [Massachusetts] : , : Brill, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

90-04-27679-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (310 p.)

Collana

Historical Materialism Book Series, , 1570-1522 ; ; Volume 86

Disciplina

306.440947

Soggetti

Language and languages - Political aspects - Soviet Union - History

Language policy - Soviet Union - History

Sociolinguistics - Soviet Union - History

Linguists - Soviet Union - History

Hegemony - Soviet Union - History

Socialism and culture - Soviet Union - History

Soviet Union Politics and government 1917-1936

Soviet Union Intellectual life 1917-1970

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Introduction: The Multiple Dimensions of Hegemony -- 1 Hegemony in Russian Social Democracy Before 1917 -- 2 Orientology, Philology and the Politics of Empire: Traditional Intellectuals in Late Imperial Russia -- 3 Verbal Art and Revolution: The Living Word -- 4 Metamorphoses of Hegemony in the Period of the nep -- 5 The New Paradigm in Linguistic Science -- 6 The Revolution in the West and East: Hegemony and the National Question -- 7 Hegemony: The Decline and Fall of a Paradigm -- 8 Ideology Critique, Positivism and Marxism: The Paradoxical Legacy of Nikolai Marr -- Conclusion -- Glossary of Names -- Bibliography -- Index.

Sommario/riassunto

Though generally associated with the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, the idea of hegemony had a crucial history in revolutionary Russia where it was used to conceptualize the dynamics of political and cultural leadership. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study considers the cultural dimensions of hegemony, with particular focus



on the role of language in political debates and in scholarship of the period. It is shown that considerations of the relations between the proletariat and peasantry, the cities to the countryside and the metropolitan centre to the colonies of the Russian Empire demanded an intense dialogue between practical politics and theoretical reflection, which led to critical perspectives now assumed to be the achievements of, for instance, sociolinguistics and post-colonial studies.