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Vasili Lytkin and the latinisation of Komi

Abstract

International audience The so-called episode of the " latinisation " in Russia in the 1930ies is a curious one and deserves to be examined in detail. It played a certain role in the beginning and the development of a written culture in different languages of the URSS and the sequence of the events connected with it illustrates most eloquently the tragic unwinding of the Soviet tale in the two decades between the Revolution and the so-called Great Patriotic War. Vasily Lytkin was one of the main actors of this story in the Komi territory and the aim of this article is to unfold and comment it. Still, in order to understand what was at stake, I shall start by two introductory chapters: one about the general context of latinisation 1 and the other about the peculiar situation in Komi. Only when these two contextual questions have been reviewed, we may be able to analyse Lytkin's role in it and his motivations.

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