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Language, Ideology, and State-Building: A Comparison of Policies in France, Israel, and the Soviet Union

This article compares the relationship between dominant polit ical ideologies and language policies—Jacobinism and French; Zionism and Hebrew; and socialism-communism and Russian—and analyzes the use of superordinate languages as state-building instruments. It examines the policies pursued, and the political rationales invoked, by France to suppress Breton and other "peripheral" languages; by Israel to discourage the use of Yiddish; and by the Soviet Union to undermine or Sovietize non- Slavic languages. Finally, the article poses the question whether alterna tive approaches were feasible and whether these policies have served or should serve as models for other countries.

International Political Science Review, Vol. 13, No. 4, 397-414 (1992)
DOI: 10.1177/019251219201300404


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