Revolutionary Linguistics: The Ideology of the Soviet Esperanto Movement, 1917-1938

Enrollments for Esperanto course, Leningrad, Russia, 1919

Work detailing the history of the Russian then Soviet Esperanto movement, its relationship to the government, its linguistic work and eventual repression.

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