2022/03/24 by Konstantin Zamyatin · 1 citation
Social Sciences · Arts and Humanities · #Multilingual Education and Policy #Linguistics, Language Diversity, and Identity #Language policy #Realm #Empire #Political science #Soviet union #Politics #Authoritarianism #Linguistics #Democracy #Law
paper · doi:10.1093/oso/9780198767664.003.0005
openalex publication_date 2022/03/24 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/06/12
Abstract The chapter offers an overview of the language policy of Russia, with a special emphasis on its effects on Uralic minority languages. The structure of the first part of the chapter is chronological: it starts from the period when the Finno-Ugric peoples were first integrated into the Russian political realm and consequently overviews the language policies of the Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and then a democratizing and present-day authoritarian Russia. The second part of the chapter is about regional language policies, especially from the point of view of language revival and the role of minority languages in education. First, it presents an overview of some common trends in regional policy development and then discusses differences in the language protection regimes of the Uralic languages in individual regions. Despite the common general framework, some regions were more successful in pursuing their language policy goals than others.