Political Discourse in Transition in Europe 1989-1991 Book

	Acknowledgments
	Preface
	Note on Contributors
	Introduction: Political Discourse and the European Transformation	1
1	A Chronology of Change	3
2	Making Sense of the Cold War's Collapse	15
3	The Pragmatics of Transition	25
Pt. 1	The Collapse of Soviet Discourse	35
4	The Collapse of Empire and Search for Cultural Identity	37
5	Processes of Political Communication in the USSR	51
6	The Restructuring of Soviet Political Discourse	69
Pt. 2	Political Vocabulary in Transition	85
7	From Comrades to Consumers: Interpersonal Aspects of the Lexicon	87
8	Breakthrough and Blind Alley: The Lexicon of Perestroika	95
9	Opposition Discourse in Russia: Political Pamphlets 1989-91	111
10	Justice, Equality and Freedom: The Structure of Value Concepts	131
11	Continuity and Change: German Discourse after Unification	147
12	Translating the Transition: What is the Russian for 'Perestroika'?	173
Pt. 3	Discourse, Identity and Conflict	189
13	The Construction of Nation and State: Discourse and Social Space	191
14	Cognitive Dimensions of Identity: Ethnic Stereotypes in Poland	215
15	Defining Democracy: Transitional Discourse in Georgia 1990-91	233
16	Language and Identity in Bosnia-Herzegovina	251