Script Reforms in Early Soviet Ethnic Policy
Journal: Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University History
Year: 2019

The article deals with the activities if the Soviet leadership in the field of reforming the alphabets of the "national" languages as an integral part of ethnic policy in the USSR in the nineteen twenties and thirties. The conclusion made is that the alphabetic Latinization, which reached its peak in the early thirties, was connected with the social aspect of the ethnic policy. Creation of the new alphabets was to serve the objectives of socialist construction, international education and overco