the strong role that language can have in the class struggle between proletariat and bourgeoisie. Danilov shared the belief, which was widespread in the second half of the 1920s, that the socio-economic conditions of a social group or class are reflected by their psychology and their language used. The different uses of language in these classes introduce a new hierarchy in which poor peasants occupy the bottom of the ladder, as they use the archaic lexicon reduced to the terminology of agriculture. In this classification, skilled workers and local cadres occupy a high place - they are bilingual, they use the Russian language of the October Revolution but they also speak Ukrainian. Danilov interpreted this diversity of language as the result of differences between the psychologies of classes. Danilov suggested a new language that can finally unite the classes: Russian, since it relates to the Revolution. He later acknowledged the limitations of this work, affirming that he should have looked beyond the results and should not have considered these results as answers, but as the key to arrive at the answers. Jazikofront During the 1930s in the Soviet Union two main linguistic schools existed: those who followed the idea of an ancient proto-language developed long time ago, namely Proto-Indo-European, and those who followed the theory postulated by Nikolay Marr, the Japhetic theory, which postulated that the Kartvelian languages of the Caucasus area are related to the Semitic languages of the Middle East. Marrism claimed to represent "proletarian science" as opposed to the "bourgeois science" of Indo-European linguistics. The situation became more complicated, however, on 15 September 1930, when Danilov formally founded Jazikofront, a group of linguists belonging to the Communist Academy who rejected the Japhetic theory. For the first time in the USSR, Marrism was attacked by Marxist linguists, who criticized Marrism's single-minded focus on genetic analysis, as opposed to functional analysis concerned with the ongoing development and use of language. The "Jazikofront" also included other important young linguists, such as K.A. Alaverdov, Y.V. Loya, T.P. Lomtev and P.S. Kuznetsov. These young linguists fought on two different fronts: against the traditional approach to language and against other pretenders to the throne of new linguistics and other linguists claiming to be Marxists. Their criticism was not ideological but technical. Ideologically, the positions of Marr coincided with those of the group, but they believed it was necessary to revise the method of