Translator's Introduction -- Preface to the English Edition -- Contents -- Introduction -- The Petrine Language Reform -- The Linguistic and Cultural Situation of the Petrine Era -- The Start of Normalization of the New Literary Language -- The Formulation of Linguistic Theories and Literary Practice -- The Changed Conception of the Literary Language -- The "Slavenorossiiskii Language" and the Synthesis of Cultural and Linguistic Traditions -- The New Cultural Differentiation -- Linguistic Purity as an Ideolo gical Category.