Introduction / Craig Brandist -- Soviet linguistics of the 1920s and 1930s and the scholarly heritage / Vladimir M. Alpatov -- "Sociology" in Soviet linguistics of the 1920-30s : Shor, Polivanov and Voloshinov / Mika Lähteenmäki -- Theoretical insights and ideological pressures in early Soviet linguistics : the cases of Lev Iakubinskii and Boris Larin / Victoria Gulida -- Early Soviet linguistics and Mikhail Bakhtin's essays on the novel of the 1930s / Craig Brandist and Mika Lähteenmäki -- Language as a battlefield : the rhetoric of class struggle in linguistic debates of the first five-year plan period : the case of E.D. Polivanov vs. G.K. Danilov / Kapitolina Fedorova -- The tenacity of forms : language, nation, Stalin / Michael G. Smith -- The word as culture : Grigorii Vinokur's applied language science / Vladislava Reznik -- Language ideology and the evolution of kulʹtura iazyka ("speech culture") in Soviet Russia / Michael S. Gorham -- Psychology, linguistics and the rise of applied social science in the USSR : Isaak Shpilʹreĭn's Language of the Red Army soldier / Craig Brandist -- Appendix 1: Introduction to japhetidology : theses / Ivan Meshchaninov ; translated and with an introduction by Craig Brandist -- Appendix 2: Glossary of names -- Appendix 3: List of contributors.