The Landslide project is financed by the Norwegian Research Council (FRIHUM 2005-2008).

The project studies interrelations between linguistic liberalisation and literary development in Russia in two periods of historical transition: the post-Revolutionary years of the 1920s and the post-Soviet period of the 1990s. In both periods, a potent «landslide of the norm» expresses itself in a linguistic turbulence which receives a wide range of responses in diverse spheres of language culture.

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