I don’t know whether this would call the books authenticity into question or show some cracks in the state control, but the use of the old “czarist” print would definitely not have been ok. Anyone that was being taught the reformed orthography would struggle to read it. I’m guessing this was a major selling point - you essentially make all non-communist state controlled printed media unreable.
Communists did quite a hack job with the written part of Russian, purging many Latin letters: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reforms_of_Russian_orthograp...
I don’t know whether this would call the books authenticity into question or show some cracks in the state control, but the use of the old “czarist” print would definitely not have been ok. Anyone that was being taught the reformed orthography would struggle to read it. I’m guessing this was a major selling point - you essentially make all non-communist state controlled printed media unreable.