History & Area Studies

Roklina, Natalie

Flights Into The Past

The purpose of this book is to allow students of Russian in their first and second years of study to read -- and to enjoy! -- authentic, unabridged, and unsimplified Russian literature. Works chosen for the collection give their reader insight into...

Aroutunova

Lives in Letters: Princess Zinaida Volkonskaya and her Correspondence

The letters to Princess Volkonskaya published in this book reflect nearly thirty years of Russian and European history: the Napoleonic Wars, victory and the subsequent upheavals, the religious struggles between the Russian Orthodox Church and the growing...

klaus roth & gabriele wolf

South Slavic Folk Culture

The ethnic, religious, linguistic, and cultural diversity, the perceived distance from Western culture as well as linguistic barriers make access to South Slavic folk cultures difficult. In spite of that there is a surprisingly large number of...

Wexler, Paul

The Ashkenazic Jews

This book, a linguist's reassessment of early European Jewish history, will be of interest to anyone who has ever wondered how the Jewish people, lacking their own territorial base and living as a minority among often hostile non-Jewish peoples over the...

Bailey, James

Three Russian Lyric Folk Song Meters

Although Russian literary versification has been thoroughly investigated, Russian folk verse has been relatively little studied. Epic verse has received the most attention and has been compared with the Serbo-Croatian deseterac in an effort to...

Frucht, Richard

Labyrinth of Nationalism

Contents Introduction     9 Paul E. and Jean T. Michelson Charles and Barbara Jelavich: A Bibliographical Appreciation     13 Chronological Bibliography     55 Catherine...

Matejic, Mateja

Catalog of Manuscripts set

This unique achievement in the cataloging of medieval Slavic Cyrillic manuscripts provides 1,842 catalog records and over two hundred pages of unified indices representing medieval manuscript material brought together on microform in the Hilandar...

Strong, John W.

Essays on Revolutionary Culture

Contents: Richard Stites: Festival and Revolution: The Role of Public Spectacle in Russia, 1917-1918;Gabriele Gorzka: Proletarian Culture in Practice: Workers' Clubs, 1917-1921;Felix Patrikeeff: Russian and Soviet Economic Penetration of...

Rowney, Don Karl

Imperial Power and Development

Contents Foreword     7 Don Karl Rowney Introduction     9 Part I. Russian Adventurers in the Age of Enlightenment: Expeditions to the Pacific in the Eighteenth Century Basil Dmytryshyn Privately...

Perkowski, Jan

The Darkling

Some years ago, while pursuing folklore field work in eastern Canada, the author stumbled upon an active vampire cult. The interest aroused by this discovery led to a series of invited lectures and eventually the establishment of a college course...

Kirschbaum, Stanislav

East European History

Contents Foreword     5   Historiography   Alexandru Zub Themes in Southeast European Historiography     11 Paul E. Michelson Themes in Modern and Contemporary Romanian...

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...