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An Ethnography of Russian Language Teaching in Bulgarian Schools During Socialism (1944-1989): Textbooks and Memories
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In: Slavic Studies Honors Papers (2021)
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After World War II, the Soviet Union encouraged its satellite states in the Eastern Bloc to implement Russian language instruction in their schools as a soft power strategy of linguistic and cultural colonialism. The Russian language was a mandatory school subject in Bulgarian schools from 1944 to 1989. Although the Russian language did not come to dominate Bulgarian institutions and was not widely used in society, its study was imposed on the local population. This study endeavors to explore this educational practice through the lens of linguistic imperialism and resistance against it, classroom ethnography, memory studies and oral history using this framework to analyze Russian-language textbooks used in Bulgarian schools during this time period and interviews conducted with people who have lived through this experience. This study aims to uncover everyday forms of resistance within this totalitarian educational practice. Although many of the participants acknowledged the political connotations of their Russian language courses and some instances of resistance arose from personal accounts, the majority of people seem to hold predominantly positive memories of learning Russian as children.
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European History; Language and Literacy Education; Slavic Languages and Societies
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URL: https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/slavichp/6 https://digitalcommons.conncoll.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1004&context=slavichp
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The Current Language Crisis in Siberia
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In: University Honors Theses (2021)
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PLPrepare: A Grammar Checker for Challenging Cases
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In: Electronic Theses and Dissertations (2021)
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Investigating the Needs of Foreign Language Learners of Tuvan
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In: World Languages and Literatures Faculty Publications and Presentations (2020)
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Russian Language Use in the United States: Demographics and Implications
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In: Posters-at-the-Capitol Presentations (2020)
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A Research Guide to Southeastern Europe: Print and Electronic Sources
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In: Library Staff Publications (2019)
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Quantitative Fine-grained Human Evaluation of Machine Translation Systems: a Case Study on English to Croatian
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In: Articles (2018)
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hr500k – A Reference Training Corpus of Croatian.
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In: Conference papers (2018)
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Memory and the Realization of the Nothingness. On a Letter of Vittorio Sereni to Giuseppe Ungaretti
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In: Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (2018)
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Terribly in love: Selected poems of Tautvyda Marcinkeviciute
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In: English Faculty Publications (2018)
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Evolving Secondary Colours: Evidence from Sorbian
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In: Andrew R. Hippisley (2018)
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Pirandello and Satire. The Imaginary Journey of Four Authors in Search of a Character According to Charles Kenneth Scott Moncrieff (1889-1930)
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In: Languages, Literatures, and Linguistics (2017)
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Preliudai po lietaus = Preludes after Rain
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In: English Faculty Publications (2017)
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Two Voices = Du Balsai
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In: English Faculty Publications (2017)
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The Agent Across the Border: "Russia" and "Ukraine" as Actors in the News, 2013-2015
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In: Theses and Dissertations--Linguistics (2016)
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Linguistic Landscape of Main Streets in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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In: Undergraduate Honors Theses (2015)
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Linguistic Landscape of Main Streets in Bosnia and Herzegovina
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In: Undergraduate Honors Theses (2015)
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Martin Luther: Vater Einer Allgemeinen Sprache? Martin Luther: Father of a Common Language?
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In: John Wesley Powell Student Research Conference (2014)
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