Popova, N. S. A Collection of Arithmetic Problems and Exercises for the Primary School, Part II (Mecmueje mesael ve temrinate hesab: beraje mekatebe ebtedai. Qesmete II-om). 1933. In Persian (Farsi), in the Soviet Latin script.

Popova, N. S. A Collection of Arithmetic Problems and Exercises for the Primary School. Part II, fourth year of instruction / translated by Dj. Rezaev and H. Huseynov, under the editorship of Dj. Khalilov ; after the Russian original by N. S. Popova, with the method of Prof. I. N. Kavun.
Latinized Persian title as printed: "Məçmuəje məsael və təmrinate hesab : bəraje məkatebe ebtedai. Qesməte II-om."
Ashgabat (Eşqabad) : Turkmen State Publishing House, 1933,  ordinary format.
Text in Persian (Farsi) in the Soviet Latin script. Publisher's pictorial paper-covered boards with cloth spine. Print run of only 1,000 copies. First edition of this Latinized-Persian translation. Approved by the Collegium of the People's Commissariat of Education of Turkmenistan.
Binding good. Text block good: wood-pulp paper age-browned with occasional foxing; text complete and legible, firm.

A scarce survival from one of the briefest and least-documented episodes of early Soviet alphabet policy: the Latinized Persian (Farsi) script used in the USSR from 1931 to 1938 for the Iranian (Farsi-speaking) minority centred on Ashgabat in Soviet Turkmenistan. As part of the all-Union Latinization drive led by N. F. Yakovlev's committee, Latin alphabets were devised for the great majority of the written languages of the USSR; for the Soviet Persian community this script was used in schools, in the Ashgabat newspaper "Bejraqe Sorx" (Red Banner), and in a small body of textbooks and literature, before being abolished in favour of Cyrillic in 1938, after which Latin-script materials were withdrawn. The present volume is one such school textbook: the standard Soviet primary arithmetic problem course of N. S. Popova (developed with Prof. I. N. Kavun), here translated for Persian-medium primary schools, Part II, fourth year of instruction. Issued by the Turkmen State Publishing House in an edition of only 1,000 copies, it is elusive in standard library catalogues. The exercises themselves are a vivid record of Sovietization through the vernacular, with problems built around selling Pravda and Izvestia, workers' cooperatives, brigade wages, threshing machines and tractors. The book will appeal to collectors and institutions concerned with Soviet nationalities and language policy, the history of Latinization, the Iranian diaspora in the USSR, Persian and Central Asian studies, and the printing history of Turkmenistan.