Frontmatter -- Contents -- Introduction -- Contributors -- 1. The Discourse of Argumentation in Totalitarian Language and Post-Soviet Communication Failures -- 2. Russian and Newspeak: Between Myth and Reality -- 3. 'A Society that Speaks Concordantly', or Mechanisms of Communication of Government and Society in Old and New Russia -- 4. Legal Literature 'for the People' and the Use of Language (Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Century) -- 5. 'How to Write to the Newspaper': Language and Power at the Birth of Soviet Public Language -- 6. Between the Street and the Kitchen: The Rhetoric of the Social(ist) Meeting in Literature and Cinema -- 7. Was Official Discourse Hegemonic? -- 8. Attempts to Overcome 'Public Aphasia': A Study of Public Discussions in Russia at the Beginning of the Twenty-first Century -- 9. Allotment Associations in Search of a New Meaning -- 10. 'Distances of Vast Dimensions . . .': Official versus Public Language (Material from Meetings of the Organising Committees of Mass Events, January-February 2012) -- 11. Insides Made Public: Talking Publicly about the Personal in Post-Soviet Media Culture (The Case of The Fashion Verdict) -- 12. Distorted Speech and Aphasia in Satirical Counterdiscourse: Oleg Kozyrev's 'Rulitiki' Internet Videos -- 13. The Past and Future of Russian Public Language -- Notes on Contributors -- Subject Index -- Name Index