The Russian Language Outside the Nation

GBS_insertPreviewButtonPopup(['ISBN:9780748668458','ISBN:9780748668465','ISBN:9780748668489']); The first book to examine Russian as a minority language in different countries The collapse of the Soviet Union dramatically changed the global distribution of the Russian language. Apart from Russia, it is now spoken in fourteen successor states of the former Soviet Union, while the increased mobility of Russian speakers has expanded russophone communities across the world. Taking a broad sociolingu