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Article missed another remarkable thing about the 1932 Baba Yaga book - the text appears to be pre-1917 reform! Communists did quite a hack job with the writte
by sologoub 8y ago
Article missed another remarkable thing about the 1932 Baba Yaga book - the text appears to be pre-1917 reform!
Communists did quite a hack job with the written part of Russian, purging many Latin letters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthography https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthograp...
I don’t know whether this would call the books authenticity into question or show some cracks in the state control, but the use of the old “czarist” print would definitely not have been ok. Anyone that was being taught the reformed orthography would struggle to read it. I’m guessing this was a major selling point - you essentially make all non-communist state controlled printed media unreable.