Titlebook: Dangerous Language — Esperanto and the Decline of Stalinism; Ulrich Lins Textbook 2017 The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 201

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https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05546-2cate field of relations among the peoples of the Soviet Union. Theoreticians and party functionaries—rightly or wrongly—feared that Esperanto could become a weapon in the hands of those who refused to submit to official advocacy of Russian as the common language of all Soviet citizens. The situation

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The Events of 1937–38a twenty-year period thereafter, no information about Esperanto life in the Soviet Union emerged. Only in the post-Stalinist ‘thaw’ did details begin to surface. In 1965 the first witness to the persecutions succeeded in fleeing to the West: the Russian actor Nikolai Rytkov, known for his portrayal

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Esperantists in the Great Purgehat soon the Soviet Esperantist Union (SEU) would reach a decisive turning point: ‘We expect in the near future a principled and more general solution … which will finally give us a basis for rapid progress.’ Early in 1937 a ‘decision in principle’ about SEU was indeed made, but it was the opposite

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The Emergence of Soviet Patriotismhey realized that they were getting drawn into the sensitive area of the so-called nationalities problem. The Russian language was raised to the rank of common language for all Soviet peoples. In the system of all-Soviet patriotism, which had banished even the ‘revolutionary’ Latin alphabet, there w

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