Politics and Place-Names: Changing Names in the Late Soviet Period.

Publication: The Modern Language Review

Publication Date: 01-OCT-01

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Politics and Place-Names: Changing Names in the Late Soviet Period. By JOHN MURRAY. (Birmingham Slavonic Monographs, 32) Birmingham: University of Birmingham. 2000. vi + 203 pp. 18 [pounds sterling].

This is a really excellent study in political history and linguistics which will be of interest to students and academics alike. The book is actually broader in scope than the title suggests, since there is extensive reference to the whole Soviet era, and also, in the case...

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