i-iv -- Preface -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part I. Historical challenges -- Chapter 1. Democracy and language in late imperial Russia -- Chapter 2. Divided speech communities of the Soviet Union -- Part II. Theoretical approaches -- Chapter 3. G.G. Shpet, linguistic structure, and the Eurasian imperative in Soviet language reform -- Chapter 4. N.Ia. Marr, language history, and the Stalin cultural revolution -- Part III. Practical experiments -- Chapter 5. Mass mobilizing for Russian literacy: scripts, grammar and style -- Chapter 6. "A revolution for the east": Latin alphabets and their polemics -- Part IV. Statist solutions -- Chapter 7. The official campaign for Russian language culture -- Chapter 8. Stalin's linguistic theories as cultural conquest -- Conclusion -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Notes -- Archival sources -- References -- Index -- 303-304