Legislative Ban on the Native Language

in the campaign “Ban on Ukrainian Book Printing (1720)”

The ruler's direct decree against the very language of the local population in print: the same decree of Peter I ordered books to be checked against Muscovite ones, "so that there be no discord or distinct dialect in them"[1].

ID: C0043.T0113.001
Start: January 1720
End: December 1720
Contributors: decolonial.ist project

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