Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note on Transliteration and Translations -- Introduction: Sociolinguistic Change and the Response of Literature -- Part I. Post-Soviet Language Culture -- Chapter 1. Newspeak, Counterspeak and Linguistic Memory -- CHAPTER 2. Challenging the Standard -- Part II. Language, Writers and Fiction -- CHAPTER 3. Languages and Styles of Post-Soviet Russian Prose -- CHAPTER 4. The Literary Norm -- Part III. Writers on Language: Telling and Showing -- CHAPTER 5. Pisateli o iazyke Writers' Reflections on Language -- CHAPTER 6. Abanamat Reactions to the Ban on Profanity in Art -- Part IV. Language on Display -- CHAPTER 7. Confronting Linguistic Legacies -- CHAPTER 8. Language, Time and Linguistic Dystopia -- CHAPTER 9. Language Ideologies and Society -- Conclusion: Towards a Theory of Performative Metalanguage -- References -- Index