After Newspeak: Language Culture and Politics in Russia from Gorbachev to Putin

(Cornell University Press) Beginning with the premise that periods of rapid and radical change both shape and are shaped by language, After Newspeak presents a cultural history of the politics of the Russian language from Gorbachev to Putin. Gorham documents the role and fate of the Russian language in the collapse of the USSR and in the decades of reform and reconstruction that followed. Gorham is an associate professor of Russian at the University of Florida.