Neil Bermel, Linguistic Authority, Language Ideology, and Metaphor: The Czech Orthography Wars, Language, Power and Social Process, vol. 17, Walter de Gruyter, 2007, p. 31, ISBN 978-3-11-019766-2. URL consultato il 7 dicembre 2014.
«[...] the Russian spelling reforms of 1917-1918 were based on proposals drawn up by an imperial commission thirteen years earlier, slightly watered down. However, because they were implemented at time of great social upheaval, these reforms divided Russian literati into two camps. Adherence to the old orthography became a mark of adherence to pre-revolutionary values, and some émigré presses continued to employ the pre-Soviet conventions until the 1970s.»
