Issues of Improvement of the Alphabets of the Turkic Languages of the USSR (Voprosy sovershenstvovaniia alfavitov tiurkskikh iazykov SSSR). 1972. In Russian.

Вопросы совершенствования алфавитов тюркских языков СССР : сборник статей / Академия наук СССР, Институт языкознания ; отв. ред. д-р филол. наук Н. А. Баскаков.
Москва : Наука, 1972. 239 с., [1] л. табл. ; 22 см.
Твёрдый переплёт. Тираж 2 400 экз.
Состояние хорошее: незначительный износ углов корешка; пожелтение бумаги в норме для возраста; блок крепкий, вкладная таблица на месте.
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Voprosy sovershenstvovaniia alfavitov tiurkskikh iazykov SSSR : collected articles / Academy of Sciences of the USSR, Institute of Linguistics ; ed. by N. A. Baskakov, Dr. of Philological Sciences.
Moscow : Nauka, 1972. 239 pp., [1] foldout table ; 22 cm.
Hardcover. Print run of 2,400 copies.
Condition good: minor corner wear at head of spine; age-toning of paper normal for date; binding firm, foldout table present and intact.

This collected volume, issued by Nauka under the auspices of the Institute of Linguistics of the USSR Academy of Sciences, brings together twenty-two specialized studies on the history, current state, and proposals for rationalization of the Cyrillic-based alphabets of the Turkic peoples of the Soviet Union. The volume was edited by Nikolai Aleksandrovich Baskakov (1905-1996), who over a sixty-four-year career published nearly 640 works, including the foundational multi-volume classification of the Turkic language family that bears his name. As longtime head of the Turkic languages sector at the Institute of Linguistics, Baskakov was the principal institutional architect of Soviet Turkic orthographic standardization, and he contributes two essays to the present volume: the opening programmatic survey of the current state of all Turkic alphabets and the concluding retrospective on the Latinization campaigns of the 1920s-1930s.
The remaining twenty essays cover the writing systems of nineteen further languages: Azerbaijani, Altai, Bashkir, Gagauz, Kazakh, Karakalpak, Karachay-Balkar, Kyrgyz, Crimean Tatar, Kumyk, Nogai, Tatar, Tuvan, Turkmen, Uzbek, Uyghur, Khakas, Chuvash, Shor, and Yakut. Each contribution traces the development of a given script from pre-revolutionary origins through the Soviet reforms of Arabization, Latinization, and Cyrillization, and addresses concrete proposals for refining letter-to-phoneme correspondences within the Cyrillic framework then in use. A large foldout comparative table at the rear maps letter correspondences and phonemic values across all twenty languages - a synoptic reference tool of lasting practical utility. A Cambridge Core review describes the volume as "the most valuable single work on Turkic alphabets." Published with a print run of 2,400 copies, this was a specialized scholarly edition with limited distribution. It remains an essential reference for historians of Soviet nationalities policy, sociolinguists, and Turkological researchers.