The Establishment of The Soviet Regime In Northern Azerbaijan. Resistance Against The Invaders

The Alphabet Reforms.

The first All-Union Turkish Studies Congress, on February 26 - March 5, 1926, in Baku, considered the transition to the Latin alphabet as a major tool in the eradication of illiteracy among the Turkic peoples and the perception of a new socialist culture. Finally, by decree of the Azerbaijani government on January 1, 1929, the transition to the Latin alphabet was officially announced in the country. A special commission, in 1932, adopted a completely improved version of the Latin alphabet for the implementation of this reform. Just the Soviet Azerbaijan finished the transition to the new alphabet in mid-1936, the Soviet leadership started a new company on transferring to the Russian alphabet (Cyrillic) in the Soviet republics with the Turkic-Muslim population. The main aim of this reform was the Russification of the Turkic-Muslim population. In 1938, the Soviet leadership has adopted a special decree on the compulsory teaching of the Russian in the non-Russian schools. Subsequently, in July of 1939, the Supreme Council of the Azerbaijan SSR issued a decree “On transfer of Azerbaijani Latin alphabet to Russian alphabet”, which came in force since January 1, 1940. Thus, in the Soviet leadership changed alphabet twice during 10 years for political purposes.

In Azerbaijan one of an incre-dible event of this period was frequently changing the alphabet. In 1929 to the Latin alphabet, the end of 1939 was passed to the Cyrillic alphabet.