The Russian Language in the Waves of Emigration During the Post – Revolutionary Period

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.201212.023How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Russian emigration, refugees, waves of emigration, Russian language, post – revolutionary period, post – soviet period, Russian language acquisition

Abstract

This article examines the stages of emigration from Russia in the post-revolutionary period. The main position is taken by the state of affairs of the Russian emigration of the XX century. Prior research presents the most significant features of the waves in post – revolutionary period, specifying three waves of emigration from the USSR during 1920 – 1986. The author makes a try to analyze the historical events, that affected migration movements and played the vital role in forming the image of Russian language at certain periods. Much attention has been drawn to analyzing linguistic elements of each wave, as vocabulary and grammar, appropriate usage of them depending on different ages, backgrounds, professional positions and social status of emigrants. Attitude to the Russian language, the value of national linguistic heritage is demonstrated in different ways among the representatives of each wave. Having estimated the usage of Russian language in a foreign environment, makes possible to trace the development trends of the national Russian language in general. This paper supports the fact, that national Russian language is reaching its maturity because of constant development among Russian speaking people around the world. The paper has an interdisciplinary character, written at the intersection of linguistics and history and can be highly accepted both by students of history and philology departments.

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© 2020, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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AU  - I.Z. Bulatova
AU  - A.A. Bilyalova
PY  - 2020
DA  - 2020/12/15
TI  - The Russian Language in the Waves of Emigration During the Post – Revolutionary Period
BT  - Proceedings of the International Conference Digital Age: Traditions, Modernity and Innovations (ICDATMI 2020)
PB  - Atlantis Press
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EP  - 106
SN  - 2352-5398
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