This paper explores the history of the alphabet revolutions in the Ottoman Empire and the Russian Empire, beginning in the 1860s and culminating with the new Turkish alphabet and the Soviet latinization movement in the 1920s. Unlike earlier works that have treated these movements separately, this article traces the origins of the alphabet revolutions to the 19th-century communications revolution, when the telegraph and movable metal type challenged the existing modes of knowledge production and imposed new epistemologies of writing on the Muslims in the Russo-Ottoman space. This article examines the media technologies of the era and the cross-imperial debates surrounding various alphabet proposals that predated latinization and suggests that the history of language reform in the Russo-Ottoman world be reevaluated as a product of a modernizing information age that eventually changed the entire linguistic landscape of Eurasia.

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电报、排版和字母表：俄罗斯-奥斯曼帝国空间中字母表革命的起源

本文探讨了奥斯曼帝国和俄罗斯帝国字母革命的历史，从 1860 年代开始，到 1920 年代新土耳其字母和苏联拉丁化运动达到顶峰。与将这些运动分开处理的早期作品不同，本文将字母表革命的起源追溯到 19 世纪的通信革命，当时电报和可移动金属字体挑战了现有的知识生产模式，并将新的书写认识论强加给了穆斯林。在俄罗斯-奥斯曼帝国空间。