gannent's review
4.0
This book is a broad study of how songs, words, and various symbols were used and interpreted by various groups during 1917 in Russia. It's especially interesting when it describes how words like "democracy" and "bourgeois" took on very different meanings from what we think they mean today. I felt like the authors were more just describing the phenomenon than trying to draw any conclusions from it, which is reasonable since they said that it's hard to conclude just how widespread the use of language and symbols actually was. I'd recommend this to anyone interested in how language affects history, and anyone interested in Russian culture in 1917.
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