Volume 39, Number 16 · October 8, 1992
Moscow: The Front Page
By Jamey Gambrell
For those outsiders who learned to decipher the codes, clichés, and inflections of Soviet journalism—what Soviet people used to called 'Aesop's language'—the metamorphosis that took place in little over two years before the attempted coup in August 1991 was nothing short of astonishing. The culture of linguistic camouflage which had included both the regime's supporters and detractors (from the liberal press to the most ardent dissidents) began to give way to a new Russian language.
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