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The Dimensions of Hegemony: Language, Culture and Politics in Revolutionary Russia by Craig Brandist (Hardback, 2015)

Though generally associated with the Italian Marxist Antonio Gramsci, the idea of hegemony had a crucial history in revolutionary Russia where it was used to conceptualize the dynamics of political and cultural leadership. Drawing on extensive archival research, this study considers the cultural dimensions of hegemony, with particular focus on the role of language in political debates and in scholarship of the period. It is shown that considerations of the relations between the proletariat and peasantry, the cities to the countryside and the metropolitan centre to the colonies of the Russian Empire demanded an intense dialogue between practical politics and theoretical reflection, which led to critical perspectives w assumed to be the achievements of, for instance, sociolinguistics and post-colonial studies.

Place of Publication
Leiden
Series Part/Volume Number
86
Series Title
Historical Materialism Book Series
Author Biography
Craig Brandist is Professor of Cultural Theory and Intellectual History at the University of Sheffield, UK. His work has greatly extended Anglophone understandings of Soviet sociolinguistics, and includes major works on Bahktin, Vygotskii, and the Soviet critique of Eurocentrism.
Date of Publication
12/02/2015
Country of Publication
Netherlands

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