Note on Transliteration and Translation
Journal: McGill-Queen's University Press eBooks
Year: 2022

In this volume, the authors follow the simplified Library of Congress system for romanization of Ukrainian, Belarusian, and Russian texts and proper names, except for cases where a commonly accepted English translation exists (for example, Trotsky or Yalta).This system omits the prime (') used to transliterate the Cyrillic soft sign (ь) and, in masculine personal surnames, the final (й) (thus Rudnytsky, not Rudnyts'kyi).The same system is applied in non-bibliographic references to persons and pl