20th Century Russia’s History through Settlement Names

20th Century Russia’s History through Settlement Names

The article is devoted to research of settlement names as a primary source reflecting the history of the Russian 20th century society. Wide-scale cases of re-nomination testify to the deepness of social and mental transformations in society as a result of the revolution, Stalin’s cult of personality...

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Main Author: Lyudmila N. Mazur
Format: Article
Language:Russian
Published: Izdatelstvo Uralskogo Universiteta 2011-12-01
Series:Voprosy Onomastiki
Subjects:
Russian language
Baltic languages
Baltic-Finnish languages
substrate
hydronymy
areal
Russian northwest
reverse dictionary
etymology
comparative historical method
oikonymy
settlement names as a historic source
20th century Russia’s history
character and reasons for re-nomination of oikonyms
Online Access:http://onomastics.ru/sites/default/files/VO_2012_2(11)/Mazur-1.pdf

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