The French Language in Russia: A Social, Political, Cultural, and Literary History

by Vladislav Rjéoutski, Derek Offord, Gesine Argent

-- With support from the Arts and Humanities Research Council of the UK and the Deutsches Historisches Institut Moskau -- The French Language in Russia provides the fullest examination and discussion to date of the adoption of the French language by the elites of imperial Russia during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. It is interdisciplinary, approaching its subject from the angles of various kinds of history and historical sociolinguistics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9462982724
• ISBN13: 9789462982727
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Amsterdam University Press
• Length: 702 Pages
• Weight: 2.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.4" x 9.3"