ELL: Re: Language policies in USSR

[Andres Heinapuu]

Look:

Language Policy in the former Soviet Union by Harold F. Schiffman
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/~haroldfs/540/handouts/ussr/soviet2.html

Bruchis, Michael. One step back, twosa steps forward: on the language policy
of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union in the national republics.
Boulder: East European Monographs; New York: Columbia UP, 1982

(in the so-called "national republics" the language policy was more liberal
than in so-called "autonomous republics" or "autonomous districts", for
example, in 60-s in some republics it was even possible to teach in
universities in "republican" language, but in most of "autonomies" all
"national" secondary schools switched their language of instruction to
Russian).

Following publications, too, enclude some data about Soviet language policy:

Red Book of the Peoples of the Russian Empire:
http://www.eki.ee/books/redbook/
Endangered Uralic Peoples: http://www.suri.ee/eup/

Janhunen, Juha. Ethnic Death and Survival in Soviet North - Journal de la
Société Finno-Ougrienne  83, 1991, 111-122.

Lallukka, Seppo. The East Finnic Minorities in the Soviet Union: An
Appraisal of Erosive Trends. Helsinki, 1990 (Annales Academiae Scientiarum
Fennicae; B-252)

Human Rights Problems in Russia: The Situation of Non-Russian Peoples
by Xenophont Sanukov: http://www.suri.ee/kongress/sanukov.html

On Northern Peoples you can find some materials from www.raipon.org, too.

Andres Heinapuu
manager of SURI
http://www.suri.ee


----- Original Message -----
From: "Pepe Vazquez" <jc_znetmn at yahoo.es>
To: <endangered-languages-l at cleo.murdoch.edu.au>
Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2001 2:40 PM
Subject: ELL: Language policies in USSR


> Hello everybody in the list,
>
> I'm new in this list and before putting my question
> I'd like to greet you all. My name's Juan Carlos
> Azkoitia, and live near Barcelona, Spain, a place
> where Catalan, a minoritarian language was prohibited
> during Franco's dictatorship, as well as Basque, which
> is also one of my ancestor's language and also in a
> process of recovery. Nowadays the situation is much
> better, having Catalan more or less 10.000.000
> speakers and Basque some 500.000. This is quite a
> different situation, compared to languages that are
> really in danger, there's no need to name because they
> are so much.
> My question is whether one knows of any book,
> publication, web site, or any other source about
> language policies in the USSR era. I've read something
> about it in some language specific publications, for
> example 'Siberian Yupik Eskimo: the language and its
> contacts with Chuckchi', by Willem de Reuse. It seems
> things have turned the other way round. During soviet
> regime language preservation was encouraged, alphabets
> were developed for Siberian and other languages which
> had never been committed to writing before.
> Meanwhile, in the USA, Native Indian languages were
> prosecuted and fought.
> Instead, today it seems things are going as with
> Yupik, for example. In Sant Lawrence Island it is
> gaining force, while in the Russian Far East it is
> bound dangerously to extinction.
>
> Is that so? I've read in the web (can't remember now
> the address) some Navajo, Lakota... recovery programs,
> ones with more success than others, bearing in mind
> that their circumstances are quite different among
> these languages.
>
> Best regards,
> Juan Carlos.
>
>
>
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