“It had nothing to do with us”. Discursive resistance and miscommunication in the Soviet Baltic States

Galina Yuzefovich

doi:10.28995/2686-7249-2017-12-78-92

“It had nothing to do with us”. Discursive resistance and miscommunication in the Soviet Baltic States

Galina Yuzefovich

https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2017-12-78-92

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Abstract

The current paper examines practices of indirect resistance to Soviet regime in the republics of the Soviet Baltic as well as its perception by tourists from the rest of the USSR coming to Latvia, Lithuania and Estonia on vacation. Special attention is given to the reasons for miscommunication between those groups and to inability of the addressees to interpret negative messages directed to them.

Keywords

Латвия, Литва, Эстония, туризм, инфраполитика, сопротивление, коммуникация, Latvia, Lithuania, Estonia, tourism, infrapolitics, resistance, communication,

About the Author

Galina Yuzefovich

New Economic School; Meduza site
Russian Federation

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For citation: Yuzefovich G. “It had nothing to do with us”. Discursive resistance and miscommunication in the Soviet Baltic States. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2017;(12):78-92. https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2017-12-78-92

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