When East Met West
Subtitle: Sociolinguistics in the Former Socialist Bloc (Contributions to the Sociology of Language ; 68)
Contributors: Jeffrey Harlig (Editor); Csaba Pleh (Editor)
Publisher: Mouton de Gruyter
Published: June 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 207
ISBN-13: 9783110145854
Subjects: Sociolinguistics; Language Arts / Linguistics / Literacy; Sociology; Warsaw Pact, Eastern bloc; Europe, Eastern
First sentence: Under the weight of poor economic performance, popular dissatisfaction, disillusionment among the power elite, and implicit withdrawal of support by the reformist government of the Soviet Union, the socialist governments of the eastern bloc fell like dominos in 1989.