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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Mastering the Perverse: State Building and Language “Purification” in Early Soviet Russia
Beteiligte:
Gorham, Michael S.
Erschienen:
Cambridge University Press (CUP), 2000
Erschienen in:Slavic Review
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.2307/2696907
ISSN:
0037-6779;
2325-7784
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<jats:p><jats:disp-quote><jats:p>They cannot represent themselves, they must be represented. Their representative must at the same time appear as their master, as an authority over them, as an unlimited governmental power that protects them against the other classes and sends them the rain and the sunshine from above. The political influence of the small peasants…finds its final expression in the executive power subordinating society to itself.</jats:p><jats:attrib>—Karl Marx, "The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte," 1852</jats:attrib></jats:disp-quote><jats:disp-quote><jats:p>This pursuit of new words, this fornication with language and excessive use of regional lexicons, I personally find most depressing. You must excuse me, but in this desire to decorate fiction with<jats:italic>non-literary</jats:italic>words one senses— apart from the littering of language with rubbish—a bourgeois aesthetic at work: the desire to decorate an icon with foil, paper flowers, and "grapes." This is bad.</jats:p><jats:attrib>—Maksim Gor'kii,<jats:italic>Selected Letters</jats:italic>, 1926</jats:attrib></jats:disp-quote></jats:p>