The Transformation of Russian from a Language of the Soviet Type to a Language of the Western Type

Abstract

It would be surprising if the events that have taken place in the former Soviet Union over the past ten years or so had not affected the Russian language. Indeed, the advent of glasnost’ and perestroika in the second half of the 1980s and then the rapid disintegration of the Soviet system following the collapse of the coup d’état in August 1991 have led to significant changes which are principally reflected in the field of vocabulary and in certain socio-linguistic areas, notably attitudes both to existing features of the language and to new elements that have appeared in the past few years.

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