The Speach 2008. www.contimporary.org (defunct website)

In this text – assembled from fragments of speeches delivered by the Soviet leaders Brezhnev and Khrushchev – I substituted those words and phrases (in italics) that have been central for a particular ideological discourse. For instance the word “comrade” was substituted with “Ladies and Gentlemen,” “socialism” with “capitalism,” and so forth. Leonid Illich Brezhnev, “Report of the Central Committee of the CPSU to the XXVI Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union and the Immediate Tasks of the Party in Home and Foreign Policy,” (Moscow, Novosti Press Agency, 1981). ———, “The CPSU in the Struggle for Unity of All Revolutionary and Peace Forces” (Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1975). Nikita Sergeevich Khrushchev, “Socialism and Communism: Selected Passages, 1956-63” (Moscow: Foreign Languages Publishing House, 1963).

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