Революция в именослове, именослов в революции (антропонимикон времен Первой Французской республики и начальных лет советской власти)

Abstract

The paper compares two systems of “new” anthroponymics: that of the French Revolution in French and its Russian (Soviet) counterpart of the early 1920s. The “new” names selected for analysis were only those falling under the ideologically marked category. My comparison of the French vs. Soviet Russian evidence reveals absolutely identical mechanisms of and similar sources of “revolutionary” name giving. The Soviet procedure, however, at least as regards its propaganda-imbued clichés forced on the population, shows more diversity.