Soviet phraseology
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Soviet phraseology, or Sovietisms, i.e., the neologisms and cliches in Russian language of the epoch of the Soviet Union, has a number of distinct traits that reflect the Soviet way of life and Soviet culture and politics. Most of these distinctions are ultimately traced (directly or indirectly, as a cause-effect chain) to the utopic goal of creating a new society, the ways of the implementation of this goal and what was actually implemented.
The topic of this article is not limited to the Russian language, since this phraseology permeated all national languages in the Soviet Union. Nevertheless, Russian was the language of "inter-nationality communication" in the Soviet Union (although it was declared official language of the state in 1990), therefore it was the major source of Soviet phraseology.
See also
- New Soviet names
- Thought reform in the People's Republic of China
- LTI – Lingua Tertii Imperii, a book that studies the way that Nazi propaganda altered the German language
