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Restricted Communication: Language Regimes in Russia’s West, 1905-1917

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Restricted Communication

Language Regimes in Russia’s West, 1905-1917

Darius Staliünas

Made available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 license with support from the Lithuanian Institute of History.

320 pages, 1 maps, bibliog., index

ISBN  978-1-80768-070-1 $135.00/£104.00 / Hb / Not Yet Published (April 2027)


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"Restricted Communication is a major contribution to understanding imperial Russia on the eve of its collapse." — Mikhail Dolbilov, University of Maryland

"A novel and ground-breaking monograph, well written and based on meticulous archival research." — Tomasz Kamusella, University of St Andrews

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Restricted Communication addresses linguistic regimes in the Russian Empire’s western borderlands—a region encompassing modern-day Poland, Right-bank Ukraine, Belarus, Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia. It also engages with broader historiographical debates and demonstrates that identifiable factors—the Russian mental map, the hierarchy of the Empire's enemies, and pressure by non-Russians—shaped a framework within which officials had to navigate their policies. By addressing debates about the Romanov nationality policy and revealing tensions between imperial and nationalist strategies, Darius Staliūnas provides new insights into the interplay of empire, language, and processes of identification in modern European history.

Darius Staliūnas is Chief Researcher at the Lithuanian Institute of History. His academic interests include Tsarist nationality policy, ethnic conflicts, and places of memory in Lithuania and beyond. He is the author of Making Russians: Meaning and Practice of Russification in Lithuania and Belarus after 1863 (2007), Enemies for a Day: Antisemitism and Anti-Jewish Violence in Lithuania under the Tsars (2015), and Lithuanian Nationalism and the Vilnius Question, 1883–1940 (2015).

Subject: History: 20th Century to Present
Area: Central/Eastern Europe

Restricted Communication by Darius Staliünas is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) with support from the Lithuanian Institute of History.

OA ISBN: 978-1-80768-072-5



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