Halfway There. On the Reception of Antoine MeHlet in Stalin's USSR

Moret deals with the Soviet reception of Meillet and his ideas, through the history and analysis of the reissued in 1938, in the midst of Stalinism, of the Russian translation of his Introduction to the Comparative Study of Indo-European Languages, a work with an introduction and comments in Russian, intended for Soviet readers. How to explain this publication in a country still subject to the linguistic theories of Marr and rejecting all Indo-European linguistics as bourgeois emanation? The author offers an overview of the relations that Meillet maintained with Russia and his Russian colleagues, then presents some milestones and sources of the reception of Meillet In the Soviet Union, which was not unequivocal.