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Mathesius's problem; the linguist is a futurist - Roman Jakobson'sformative years; "the other circumstances" - Moscow, St Petersburg and therevolution; Vilem Mathesius - in search of a new linguistics; intermezzo -Jakobson and Mathesius in the early 1920s; a republic of scholars - elementsof cross-cultural integration in interwar Prague; the magic of a commonlanguage; un'organizzazione combattiva; the rhetoric of modernity - more onideals of scholarship and ideals of society; Russian images of the whole -Trubetzkoy, Sprachbund and Eurasia; the linguist remains a futurist - RomanJakobson and the Czech avant-garde.