Lexicon Of Soviet Political Terms A Guide To The Soviet Orwellian Alteration Of The Russian Language Ilya Zemtsov by Ilya Zemtsov 9780915979080, 091597908X instant download after payment.

INTRODUCTION (excerpt)
The Soviet language is a unique creation. It is a completely “nationalized” product of the state, implanted and cultivated by the Communists to serve as an all-purpose substitute for the Russian language. Inexorably it has permeated every aspect of spiritual and intellectual endeavor: literature, journalism, history, art and science. The purpose of the language is ideological myth-making, not communication of social reality, it superimposes the Communist view of the world on reality at the expense of objective truth.
The Soviet language is monochromatic. It divides the world into polar opposites of good and evil. Yet, at the same time the Soviet language is ambiguous. This ambiguity reflects the two faces of the Soviet social system: socialist appearance is exhibited to the outside world while the totalitarian essence is evident to the Soviet public.
The words and phrases of the Soviet language act upon the unconscious and become triggers of political manipulation. Thus, charges of ideologized energy are injected into the individual, and fabrication replaces reality: slavery is proclaimed freedom, falsehood becomes truth, and war is transmogrified into peace. i
The Soviet language has two basic components: fictions which Communist ideology proclaims as reality and realities which are proferred in the guise of fictions