V. Japhetology

In the great reorganization of all forms of activity that is going on in the Union of Soviet Republics, nothing is too small or too remote from the material things of the world to be included in the new life of the country. Marxian dialectic will admit no exception to its rules and just as there is a Communist theory of history, so there must be a Communist or Marxian theory of linguistics. We can expect to find in this a clear departure from the normal methods of research and it is of some interest perhaps because under the name of Japhetology, it is being developed by the well-known student of the Caucasian languages, Prof. N. Ya. Marr.