title: Script Reforms in Early Soviet Ethnic Policy
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metadata.value: Musaev, Vadim I.
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metadata.name: dc.date.accessioned
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T12:19:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.available
metadata.value: 2020-01-17T12:19:13Z
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metadata.name: dc.date.issued
metadata.value: 2019-12
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metadata.name: dc.identifier.citation
metadata.value: Musaev V. I. Script Reforms in Early Soviet Ethnic Policy. Vestnik of Saint Petersburg University. History, 2019, vol. 64, iss. 4, рр. 1287–1300.
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metadata.value: https://doi.org/10.21638/11701/spbu02.2019.408
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metadata.value: http://hdl.handle.net/11701/16925
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metadata.name: dc.description.abstract
metadata.value: 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 overcoming “remnants of the past”. The latter was concerned in particular with
  the use of Arabic script for the alphabets of the peoples of the Caucasus, the Volga region and
  Central Asia, who traditionally practiced Islam. In the twenties and early thirties, activities on
  transfering national alphabets, previously based on either the Arabic or Cyrillic scripts or even
  hieroglyphic writing, were in progress. New alphabets were also modelled on the Latin script.
  In total in the early thirties, 66 alphabets were Latinized, and Latinization of several more was
  continuing. There were projects to Latinize even the very Russian alphabet but they were not
  implemented. Curtailing the process of Latinization and the opposite trend of substituting the
  Latin script with the Cyrillic one started in the mid-thirties was concerned with the revision
  of the general points of the Soviet ethnic policy, first of all, with the abandonment of the main
  principles of indigenization. One can see here also a reflection of a partial rehabilitation of the
  historic role of the Russian culture and promotion of the Russian nation to the position of “the
  first among the equal ones” among the peoples of the USSR.
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metadata.name: dc.description.sponsorship
metadata.value: This article was prepared with the support of grant No. 15-18-00119 of the Russian Science Foundation.
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.language.iso
metadata.value: en
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.publisher
metadata.value: St Petersburg State University
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.relation.ispartofseries
metadata.value: Vestnik of St Petersburg University. History;Volume 64; Issue 4
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metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Ethnic policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: script issues
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: neo-Arabism
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Latinization
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.subject
metadata.value: Cyrillic alphabet
metadata.lang: en_GB
metadata.name: dc.title
metadata.value: Script Reforms in Early Soviet Ethnic Policy
metadata.lang: en_GB
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metadata.value: Article
metadata.lang: en_GB
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