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LANGUAGE AND TOTALITARIAN REGIMES
Author(s) -
Stroińska Magda
Publication year - 2002
Publication title -
economic affairs
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 18
eISSN - 1468-0270
pISSN - 0265-0665
DOI - 10.1111/1468-0270.00353
Subject(s) - misappropriation , communism , politics , political science , political economy , sociology , linguistics , social science , law , philosophy
The communist misappropriation of words for political purposes still makes people in Eastern Europe struggle to find unambiguous language of political and economic thought. This paper discusses the problem of language that distorts reality and focuses on traps that hinder communication between people from the West and people from the post‐communist Eastern Europe.