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Language of the Revolution

The Discourse of Anti-Communist Movements in the “Eastern Bloc” Countries: Case Studies

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Editors:
  1. Eugen Wohl

    1. Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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  2. Elena Păcurar

    1. Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

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  • Voices the socio-political experience of the nations included in the “Eastern Bloc”
  • Offers insightful revisitations of the Central and Eastern European revolutions
  • Explores the underlying mechanisms and strategies of ideological manipulation

Part of the book series: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War (PASLW)

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Table of contents (19 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvii
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  2. Introduction

    • Eugen Wohl, Elena Păcurar
    Pages 1-23

  4. Words at War: Expressive Forms of Resistanceresistance, Dissidencedissidencedissident and Protestprotest

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 127-127
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    2. The Language of Inner Freedom for Dissent: Müller and Liiceanu Before and After the Revolution

      • Jonathan Lahey Dronsfield
      Pages 129-149

    3. The Rhetoric of Albanian Insurgency: Communism and Anti-Communism in Kosovo

      • Henrique Schneider
      Pages 151-169

    4. The Change of Worlds and Words: The Language of Protest During and After the Romanian Revolution in 1989

      • Dina Vîlcu
      Pages 171-192

  5. Written, Spoken, Performed: Archiving the Memory of (Post-)Communism

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 193-193
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    2. Humility and Hatred, Forgiveness and Hope: A Linguistic Approach on the Subjective Literary Experiences in the Romanian Communist Society

      • Maria-Zoica Eugenia Balaban
      Pages 195-218

    3. Retrieving Memory Via Desk-Drawer Literature: From Reality Escapism in Stories About Cadmav to Contemporary Reflective Writing in With My Woman’s Mind

      • Ioana Mudure-Iacob
      Pages 219-241

    4. Surviving the Change, Adjusting the Language. Romanian Writers in the Cultural Media, December 1989–1990

      • Magdalena Răduță, Oana Fotache
      Pages 243-263

    5. The December 1989 Revolution in Post-Communist Romanian Drama

      • Anca Hațiegan
      Pages 265-288

    6. Staging Communism in Romania: Language, Propaganda, Memory in Caryl Churchill’s Mad Forest and Matei Vișniec’s How to Explain the History of Communism to Mental Patients

      • Alina Cojocaru
      Pages 289-307

    7. The Language of the Velvet Revolution Versus the Anti-language of Post-Communist Crime: A Sociolinguistic Analysis of Contemporary Czech Crime Historical Television Series

      • Luboš Ptáček
      Pages 309-332

    8. Surprising Silence? Possible Reasons for Scarcity of Representation of the Velvet Revolution in Czech Film Adaptations in the 1990s

      • Radoslav Horák
      Pages 333-356
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About this book

This edited book fills a void in the existing research concerning anti-communist movements in Central and Eastern Europe, outlining the linguistic implications of the cultural, social and political metamorphoses brought about by the (change of) regime. The authors included in this volume approach the topic from a variety of perspectives, but, ultimately, focus on language seen as a fundamental tool for simultaneously subjugating and liberating, concealing and revealing truth, discouraging dissidence and fostering revolt. Readers are invited to discover the linguistic implications of the many shapes and forms that the 1989 anti-communist revolutions took. Equally interesting are the investigations of the revolution aftermath, in the first years of transition to democracy. Perceived as a whole throughout the Cold War (1947-1991), the so-called "Eastern Bloc" managed to reveal its heterogeneity, the singularity of each of its comprising states and the multitude of itsinternal contrasts, most vividly perhaps, in the manifold manifestations of the 1989 anti-communist fight. This book will be of interest to academics and researchers from various fields, including history, (socio)linguistics, political studies, and conflict studies. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    Eugen Wohl, Elena Păcurar

About the editors

Eugen Wohl is  Lecturer within the Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania and a theatre critic (IATC member).

 


Elena Păcurar  is  Lecturer within the Department of Foreign Languages for Specific Purposes, Faculty of Letters, Babeș-Bolyai University of Cluj, Romania, where she teaches practical courses of English for Specific Purposes.


Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Language of the Revolution

  • Book Subtitle: The Discourse of Anti-Communist Movements in the “Eastern Bloc” Countries: Case Studies

  • Editors: Eugen Wohl, Elena Păcurar

  • Series Title: Palgrave Studies in Languages at War

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-37178-3

  • Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham

  • eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37177-6Published: 18 November 2023

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-37180-6Due: 19 December 2023

  • eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-37178-3Published: 17 November 2023

  • Series ISSN: 2947-5902

  • Series E-ISSN: 2947-5910

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XVII, 413

  • Number of Illustrations: 9 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Sociolinguistics, International Relations, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Social Sciences, general

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