AZBUKA
STRIKES
BACK

an anti-colonial ABCs

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Some sounds have homes. Others don’t.



Between 1927 and 1991, the languages of 25 million peoples in the Soviet empire changed alphabets once, twice, and sometimes even three times.

This is the story of fugitive sounds in search of shelter...

  

Azbuka Strikes Back is an artist book for children and adults alike by Leah Feldman and Slavs and Tatars which takes the universal idea of an alphabet and unpacks it in fun, incisive and informative ways. 

This is done to help us better understand where letters come from, why they make certain sounds not to mention their baggage when it comes to gender, race, labor, and empire.
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Forgotten letters regain their voice




Touch each letter to play sounds

With interactive buttons for unusual sounds, the book will help explore areas of pronunciation not commonly found in English.Available in two languages:
English and Kazakh
interactive sound button






SLAVS AND TATARS 

Slavs and Tatars is an internationally renowned art collective whose work has been exhibited at leading museums around the world. Their publications—nearly a dozen to date—have been reviewed in The Guardian, The New York Review of Books, Le Monde, amongst others.


LEAH FELDMAN 

Leah Feldman is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of Chicago. She is the author of "On the Threshold of Eurasia: Revolutionary Poetics in the Caucasus" (2018, winner of the CESS book award).


AMINE BOULKROUN 

Originally from Algiers, Amine Boulkroun is a designer based in Paris with a taste for editorially challenging subjects.
2024, offset print on coated paper, 22.5 × 19.5 cm, 16 pages, colour throughout, glue bound with sound module, gloss-laminated hardcover

Available in English and Kazakh

Published by Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther and Franz König, Köln Verlag. Distributed by Buchhandlung Walther König, D.A.P. Distributed Art Publishers, USA and Thames and Hudson, UK.

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