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A Proposal for Transliterating Russian И and Й

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Steven P. Hill
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In scholarly publications we transliterate Russian names with consistency: linguists use the “international system” (with j, š, etc.), social scientists the “modified Library of Congress system.” But whenever any of us needs to communicate with a broad public of nonspecialists, such as the readers of a weekly news magazine or those who consult our own college catalogues, he finds himself on the horns of an old dilemma.

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Notes and Comment
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Slavic Review , Volume 32 , Issue 3 , September 1973 , pp. 588 - 589
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1973

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References

1. See Thomas Shaw, J., Transliteration of Modern Russian for English Publications (Madison, 1967)Google Scholar, systems III and II; and, similarly, the Slavonic and East European Review's pamphlet, Guide to Style and Presentation of MSS (c. 1966), p. 6.

2. Oxford Slavonic Papers, n.s., 4 (1971): iii.

3. Shaw, Transliteration, note I5.

4. Two examples among many are Edward, Braun, Meyerhold on Theatre (London, 1970)Google Scholar, and Jay, Leyda, Kino: A History of the Russian and Soviet Film (New York, 1960)Google Scholar.