Books

John W. Steinberg, Maria Carlson, Anthony J. Heywood, Alex Marshall, and David MacLaren McDonald

RGWR V5 B5: The Wider War, Strategy, Planning and Leadership, 1914-22

These two books (Volume 5, Books 4 and 5) address the operations of the ImperialRussian army in the First World War from the outbreak of hostilities in 1914 until theBolsheviks’ Declaration of Peace shortly after their seizure of power in 1917...

Kochanowski, Jan

Occasional Poems

Occasional Poems, the third in this series of Jan Kochanowski's works, contains seven occasional poems rendered into English for the first time.  They are: On the Death of Jan Tarnowski, Memorial, Epithalamium, Incursion into Muscovy, Concord,...

Charles H. Arndt III

"Our Common People Are a Vagrant Before Anything": Wanderer-Pilgrims in the Nineteenth-Century Russian Literary Landscape

Challenging the stereotype of Russian imperial society as static and immobile, the mid- to late nineteenth century witnessed the portrayal in literature of a unique representative of the country’s Orthodox Christian asceticism—the wanderer...

Rothstein, Robert

Even More Words to the Wise

Since July 2004 the author has been writing about Polish language, literature, and folklore for the Boston-based biweekly Biały Orzeł/White Eagle. Inspired by the calendar, by items in the Polish press, by his experience learning and teaching the Polish...

Eva Eckert

Letters in Chronicling Migration and Integration

The Přibyl brothers were joined by thousands of other migrantsfrom the Frenštát region in Moravia hoping to rebuild their homesin Texas in the 1870s and 1880s. Prior to integrating to America,they set up a safety net in an enclave of the...

Shahzoda Samarqandi- translated by Shelley Fairweather-Vega

Mothersland

  "I don't remember exactly whether my youth ended, and then the USSR, or if it was the other way around.  But I do know that those two things are connected.  Now I'm left here between two truths: the truth of the land, and the truth of...

Eckert, Eva

Stones on the Prairie: Acculturation in America

The language of tombstones tells the story of Czech immigrants in Texas, from its beginnings in the social and economic upheavals of 19th- and early 20th-century Bohemia and Moravia to its end in the era of opportunity and mobility that followed World...

Edited by Hilary Bird

An Introduction to Estonian Literature

Hilary Bird’s Introduction to Estonian Literature is truly a pioneering work, and a welcome contribution for anyone with an interest in the lively and flourishing literature of this small but culturally vibrant country. Ms. Bird’s coverage...

Bushkovitch, Paul (ed.)

The State in Early Modern Russia: New Directions

In the last generation a large body of new empirical information has challenged the inherited views of early modern Russia. Much of this new information has been about the state, its administration, practices, and relations with society. Old ideas and...

Frary, Lucien J. (ed.)

Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth: Essays in honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou

This volume is a tribute to Theofanis G. Stavrou, Professor of Russian and Near Eastern History and Director of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Minnesota. A generous and penetrating scholar, as well as an award-winning teacher and mentor,...

Magdalena Mullek and Julia Sherwood (eds.)

Into the Spotlight: New Writing from Slovakia

"There are stories that could have taken place anywhere - of love and hate, beauty and ugliness, illness and music - stories distinctly and intriguingly Slovak..."     Into the Spotlight features the best of what Slovak literature has to offer...

Gerald Janecek (ed.)

Staging the Image: Dmitry Prigov as Artist and Writer

Dmitry Prigov (1940–2007), the most prominent figure in Moscow Conceptualism, is not well known in the West because of a lack of English translations of his work and scholarship in English. This collection of articles by some of the most devoted...