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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Silence Descendshe regime because all its aspects contained risks: letters from abroad contained too much curiosity about the actual political and social situation within the Soviet Union, which official propaganda diligently sought to hide. Nor was it possible any longer to use the correspondence simply to describ

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Stalin Against Marred the discussion. He criticized Nikolai Marr, the creator of a new, materialistic science of language whose authority had until then seemed untouchable. This criticism created a sensation both inside and outside the Soviet Union. Stalin delivered, somewhat late, a theoretical basis for the glorific

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Revival of the Movement Union, was gradually revived is one of the most interesting chapters in the history of Esperanto. It is a case study in the Esperantist goal-directed, anti-authoritarian conviction, and grass-roots wisdom and cleverness. When at the end of October 1956 the Polish Esperanto Congress took place in Wa

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Eastern Europe: Progress and Problemsut also that it was accompanied by concrete advantages, namely direct recognition and official status. The World Congresses in Sofia (1963), Budapest (1966 and 1983) and Varna (1978) were not only important manifestations of the revived self-confidence of Esperantists in the socialist countries but

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Dangerous Language or Language of Hope?onized peoples, particularly, have suffered such prohibitions on the use of their languages in schools and public life. Generally it is fear that motivates these prohibitions—fear on the part of the dominant power that such unwelcome languages will foster political or social deviation, perhaps the c

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Kuang Fu,Hironori Konuma,Ichiro Konumaa 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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