History & Area Studies

Townsend et al.

Studia Caroliensia

Studia Caroliensia offers a selection of new research in Slavic linguistics and folklore in honor of Professor Charles E. Gribble. Gribble has touched the lives of literally thousands of students, professional colleagues, and lovers of Slavic languages...

Ference & Schaffner

Books, Bibliographies, Pugs

Books, Bibliographies, and Pugs offers a selection of new research in Library and Information Science, with special emphasis on the Russian and East European area, but also extending as far as Turkey and the Pacific Rim. The volume is presented...

David-Fox, Michael

Orientalism and Empire

Articles originally published in the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. A portion of the editors' introduction states: "With their broad range of thematic foci and theoretical approaches, the contributors to this volume...

Swan, Oscar

Mirosław Żuławski: Tales of My Wife

Mirosław Żuławski. Opowieśći mojej żony/Tales of My Wife is a glossed reader containing 20 short stories by the late Polish writer and diplomat Mirosław Żulławski. Loosely connected to the nostalgia-enhanced but true history of a Polish family over...

Mesropova, Olga

Kinotalk

This cinema based language textbook introduces high-intermediate and advanced students of Russian to eleven prominent Russian films of the 1990s. The chapters of the volume focus on the films' vocabulary, contents, and cultural implications, while...

David-Fox

After the Fall

Almost 15 years have passed since what is still known in Russia as "the collapse of communism." This second volume of essays by prominent scholars examines the effect of the "archival revolution" and the post-Soviet methodological flux on various...

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...

Helleman, Wendy

The Russian Idea

Too often the Russian Idea has been discussed in terms of political backlash to democratic reforms of the early 1990s. In Russia itself this Idea stimulated vigorous discussion of issues narrowly connected with rediscovering Russian identity in the...

Crone & Day

My Petersburg/Myself

My Petersburg/Myself is a study of the peculiar identification between Petersburg writers and urban space at the end of the imperial Petersburg tradition in Russian letters, a phenomenon unique in its complexity and intensity. Be it a private room,...

Gribble & Matejic

Monastic Traditions

Monastic Traditions represents the "Selected Proceedings" of the Fourth International Hilandar Conference, held 14Ð15 August 1998, on the campus of The Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio, as part of the worldwide commemoration of the 800th...

David-Fox, Michael

Resistance Debate in Russian and Soviet History

Articles originally published in the journal Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History. A portion of the editors' introduction states: "Just as resistance as a historical phenomenon can appear in a wide variety of historical...

Perlina, Nina

Olga Freidenberg’s Works and Days

The name and scholarly writings of Ol'ga Mikhailovna Freidenberg (1890 thorugh 1955) remained poorly known in Russia and in the West for a long time, and it is only recently that her life and works have begun to attract the attention of scholars in...