Frontmatter -- Prefatory Remarks -- Contents -- Introduction -- Part One: Languages of the Soviet West -- Language Development and Policy in Estonia -- Belorussification, Russification and Polonization Trends in the Belorussian Language 1890-1982 -- Language Politics in the Ukraine -- Part Two: Languages of the Caucasus and Crimea -- Crimean Tatar: The Fate of a Severed Tongue -- Politics and Linguistics in Daghestan -- The Formation and Development of Literary Avar -- Georgian: A Noble Past, A Secure Future -- Part Three: Languages of Soviet Central Asia -- The Politics of Language Reform in Kazakhstan -- Language Development in Soviet Uzbekistan -- Part Four: Languages of Interior Russia -- The Mordvinian Languages: A Survival Saga -- Remarks on the Chuvash Language: Past, Present and Future -- Part Five: A Non-Territorial Language -- Di Yiddish-Imperye: The Dashed Hopes for a Yiddish Cultural Empire in the Soviet Union -- Part Six: The Non-Russian Languages and Russian -- The Impact of Group Bilingualism in the SU -- The Non-Russian Languages and the Challenge of Russian: The Eastern versus the Western Tradition -- About the Authors -- Index