Part I Languages, identities and human rights 1. Change and maintenance of Plurilingualism in the Russian Federation and the European Union by Janne Saarikivi and Reetta Toivanen -- 2. The Global Extinction of Languages and its Consequences for Cultural Diversity by Suzanne Romaine -- 3. The Death of Languages; the Death of Minority Cultures; the Death of a People’s Dignity by Theodore S. Orlin -- Part II Case Studies on Cultural Change and Minority Language Maintenance: 4. Obstacles and Successes by Reetta Toivanen -- 5. Fallen ill in Political Draughts by Indrek Jääts -- 6. Finnic Minorities of Ingria by Natalia Kuznetsova, Elena Markus and Mehmed Muslimov -- 7. The Challenge of Language by Lennard Sillanpää -- 8. Uneven Steps to Literacy by Florian Siegl and Michael Rießler -- Part III Why some Languages Survive. On Language Laws, Policies and Changing Attitudes -- 9. Explaining Language Loss by Ekaterina Gruzdeva -- 10. Parliamentary Structures and their Impact on Empowering Minority Language Communities by Heiko F. Marten -- 11. Evolution of Language Ideology in Post-Soviet Russia by Konstantin Zamyatin -- 12. The Impact of Language Policy on Language Revitalization by Xabier Arzoz -- A List of Relevant Agreements, Charters, Conventions, Declarations, Legal acts, Protocols, Treaties and Other Official Documents -- A.1 International -- A.2 European and Russian -- A.3 List of Russian Regional Documents -- Index of Languages and People(s) -- Subject index -- Person index -- Place index.