1st edition, original cloth with dustjacket, 12mo, 217 pages. This first comprehensive study of Yiddish in the former Soviet Union chronicles orthographic and other reforms from the state of the language in pre-revolutionary Russia, through active language-planning in the 1920s and 1930s, repression, and subsequent developments up to the 1980s. Light scratches on dustjacket, almost mint condition, Very Good+ Condition Overall (AC-4-18)