num_pages: 232
description: This first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union chronicles orthographic and other reforms from the state of the language in pre-revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980s.
language: English
title: Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development
titlecomplete: Soviet Yiddish: Language Planning and Linguistic Development (Oxford Modern Languages and Literature Monographs)
publisher: Clarendon Press