Quick guide to move from pre-revolution Russian to post-rev?

[cliberio at broadway.GC.cuny.edu]

Gerald Janecek's book "The look of Russian literature" has as an appendix
the text of the 1917 "Resolutions of the Orthographic Subcommission of the
Imperial Academy of Science" and the issue is discussed in the
introduction.

Chiara Liberio

Ph.D. Program in Comparative Literature
Graduate Center-Cuny


On Fri, 28 May 1999, UDUT, KENNETH wrote:

>      Dear SEELANGers,
>
>      Can anybody provide a 'quick and dirty' guide to help one move from
>      pre-revolutionary Russian to post-revolution Russian?
>
>      In other words, the letters that were removed from Russian, what
>      letters do they become?
>
>      Which ones tend to vanish altogether?  (for example, the soft sign
>      at the end of many words - I've noticed that goes away frequently)
>
>      I'm not looking for a book to read (although if it covers this
>      information well, I may be interested), or a reference to ERIC (as
>      I do not know enough about the system for it to be any much help to
>      me), but rather, a page or two reply which explains it.
>
>      It doesn't have to be 100% accurate, or cover every given
>      circumstance, but I would imagine that the revolutionaries used a
>      simple set of guidelines, and that's what I'm interested in finding
>      out, so that I can look at a text I have that is a re-print of a
>      1908 Russian publication and be able to get some idea what they're
>      talking about.
>
>      Thank you very much!
>
>
>      -Kenneth
>      kenneth.udut at spcorp.com
>