Russian and democracy

Tomasz Kamusella

Russian and democracy

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At present, not a single state with Russian as its official or co-official language is a democracy. It is obviously people, not languages, who decide on a given polity’s political system and actual governance. However, Moscow made Russian into the ideological foundation of Russian neo-imperialism, or rashism. The fact increasingly casts this language in the role of a global symbol and enabling instrument of autocracy.

Original language	English
Specialist publication	Україна Модерна (Ukraina Moderna)
Publication status	Published - 28 Nov 2022

Keywords

Russian language
Democracy
Autocracy
Rashism
Russian imperialism
Neoimperialism
Russian invasion of Ukraine
Ethnolinguistic nationalism
Language policy

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Words in space and time: a historical atlas of language politics in modern Central Europe
Kamusella, T. D., 30 Nov 2021, Budapest: Central European University Press. 289 p.
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Russian and democracy

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Words in space and time: a historical atlas of language politics in modern Central Europe

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