Language as a Reflection of Ideology in Russia.

Research problems that were censored in the USSR have now come to light, among them the influence of Soviet ideology on the Russian language and the mentality of the speakers. The work reviewed in this essay analyses the role of the Soviet ideological jargon in the creation of a 'new type' of personality. The author discusses why the language preventing straightforward expression survived the Soviet political system and still affects communication in post-Soviet Russia. Numerous examples from formal and informal discourse illustrate how the Russian language turned into a reservoir of units charged with ideological meaning that function on all linguistic levels, from a letter or an accent to an entire text. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]