Language Planning in the Post-Communist Era

1. Introduction
Ernest Andrews

2. Language Planning: Theoretical Background
Ernest Andrews

3. Language Planning and Policy in China: Unity, Diversity and Social Control
Fengyuan Ji

4. Language Policy in Russia: Nation, Nationalism, and Language
Joan F. Chevalier

5. Language Policy and Power Politics in Post-Soviet Tatarstan
Teresa Wigglesworth-Baker

6. Language Policy and Hegemony in the Turkic Republics
Ayse Dietrich

7. Language Policy in Independent Ukraine: A Battle for National and Linguistic Empowerment
Vladislava Reznik

8. Lithuanian Language Planning: A Battle for Language and Power
Loreta Vaicekauskienė, Nerijus Šepetys

9. Language Planning in Latvia as a Struggle for National Sovereignty
Andrejs Veisbergs

10. The Polish Language Act: Legislating a Complicated Linguistic-Political Landscape
Magda Stroińska, Ernest Andrews

11. Language Planning in Slovakia: Nation-Building in the Context of European Integration
Marián Sloboda, Lucia Molnár Satinská, Mira Nábělková

12. Forms of Language Planning and Policy in the Czech Republic
Hana Srpova

Keywords: Linguistics, Language Policy and Planning, Russian and Post-Soviet Politics, Sociolinguistics, Language Change, Language History, Russian, Soviet, and East European History