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Dangerous Language: Esperanto and the Decline of Stalinism

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Availability:In StockContributor:Ulrich Lins, Humphrey Tonkin (Translator)Publish date:2018-07-15Pages:198
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781349958016ISBN-10:1349958018UPC:9781349958016Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, HistoryBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Russia, EuropeBook Topic:Historical & ComparativeSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCC0R81CS2
Examines in depth that sad fate of the internationalist movement for a new world language, Esperanto

Offers the reader insight into archival materials documenting the persecution and mistreatment of the speakers and supporters of Esperanto in the modern ideological landscape of the 20th century

Uncovers the resurrection of Esperantism in the late Soviet period, suggesting its contribution to the downfall of the Soviet Union
Language:EnglishPublisher:Palgrave MacMillanISBN-13:9781349958016ISBN-10:1349958018UPC:9781349958016Book Category:Language Arts & Disciplines, HistoryBook Subcategory:Linguistics, Russia, EuropeBook Topic:Historical & ComparativeSize:8.27 x 5.83 x 0.46 inchesWeight:0.5908Product ID:SCC0R81CS2
Ulrich Lins received his doctorate at the University of Cologne, Germany, with a dissertation on Japanese nationalism (published in 1976). For thirty years he worked for DAAD, the German Academic Exchange Service in its headquarters in Bonn, and served two tours of duty as head of its office in Tokyo. He has edited numbers of books in German and Japanese on German-Japanese relations and on Germany following reunion. The present volume, written originally in Esperanto, has appeared in German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Russian, and Lithuanian translations.
Humphrey Tonkin is President Emeritus of the University of Hartford, USA, where he served as University Professor of Humanities. He studied English and comparative literature at Cambridge and Harvard (Ph.D. 1966) and has written widely on literary topics and on international education and language policy. He has published numbers of translations from English to Esperanto and from Esperanto to English.
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan

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