Russian as a Transnational Language: Resonance, Remembrance, Renewal [Paperback]

List of Contributors, Preface, Acknowledgements, Introduction: Contextualizing the Volume Olga Solovova and Sabina Vakser, Chapter 1 The dissolution of the USSR, the Newly Independent States and their Diaspora Policies Olga Gulina, Chapter 2 Towards Post-Russianness? Narrative Adjustment among Kazakhstani Teachers of Russian Juldyz Smagulova and Eleonora Suleimenova, Chapter 3 Russian Immigrants in Portugal: Diasporic Nationalism and Identities Elena Bulakh, Chapter 4 Workplace Experiences of Russian-speaking Women in Japan: Victimhood Narrated Ksenia Golovina and Varvara Mukhina, Chapter 5 Russian Speakers in Finland: Online Discussions of the Russian language Vera Zvereva, Chapter 6 Bridging and Bonding on-line: Russian-speaking Migrants in the United Kingdom and Their Social Networks Oksana Morgunova, Chapter 7 How to Immigrate into History: Russian Speakers in the Finnish Border Region and the Politics of Memory in Transnational Settings Olga Davydova-Minguet, Concluding remarks Renewal as the Unfolding Future: Ways Forward in Multilingual, Diasporic Research Sabina Vakser and Olga Solovova, Index

This collection contributes to emerging work in critical sociolinguistics, using a multidisciplinary and multiscalar approach to understanding the diasporl´