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By Wojciech Wencel, Edited and Translated by Michael J. Mikoś

Imago Mundi and Other Poems

Wojciech Wencel, born in Gdańsk in 1972, is one of the most important contemporary Polish poets.  He is the author of many volumes of poetry, literary biographies, and essays, and the recipient of several prestigious literary awards, most recently...

Scherr, Barry

The Old Man and The Counterfeit Coin

Although The Old Man has been performed only rarely and The Counterfeit Coin has not even been translated into English until now, both works are deservingof far more attention than they have received.  Here, Gorky moves beyond the social themes that...

Edited by Michael S. Flier, Nancy S. Kollmann, Daniel Rowland, and Erika Monahan

Muscovy and the World: An Empire and Its Limits

DOI Contents Introduction Daniel Rowland https://doi.org/10.52500/XSII1882 Muscovy and the World: An Empire and Its Limits ................................... 3 Nancy S. Kollmann https://doi.org/10.52500/AFPE6235 From Rural Estate to Visualized...

Region Subscription

REGION: Regional Studies of Russia, Eastern Europe, and Central Asia is a peer-reviewed international journal that explores the history and current political, economic, and social affairs of the entire former Soviet bloc. In particular, the journal...

Flier et al.

Philology Broad and Deep: In Memoriam Horace Gray Lunt

Horace Gray Lunt (1918–2010), one of the leading Slavic philologists of his time, spent his entire academic career at Harvard University (1949–89), where he helped to train generations of graduate students in Slavic philology and...

Lunt, Horace G.

Concise Dictionary of Old Russian

Horace G. Lunt’s Concise Dictionary of Old Russian is a “bridge” dictionary spanning the lexical territory between Old Church Slavic and Modern Russian. For all its 40-plus years, it remains the best available short dictionary (some...

Hart & Lundberg

Fundamentals of the Structure and History of Russian

This text presents a systematic approach to understanding the patterns and alternations in the sounds and structures of Russian. The approach is “usage- based” as found in the theoretical works of Ronald Langacker, Joan Bybee, and others...

Winchell, Margaret

Vasily’s Island: The Pearl of Petersburg

Here is the story of Vasily’s Island, the largest of the islands that make up St. Petersburg. While small in size, it has played a substantial role in several aspects of the city’s life since its founding in 1703, becoming above all its...

Glickman, Rose

Agnessa: From Paradise to Purgatory, a Voice from Stalin’s Russia

There are many fine works that offer harrowing accounts of the fate of Stalin's innocent victims. This book is different. Agnessa was the beautiful, strong-willed, frivolous, and loving wife of a regional boss of Stalin's secret police who shut her eyes...

Kukharenko & Holloway

The Paths of Folklore: Essays in Honor of Natalie Kononenko

This collection of essays is offered with sincere gratitude and appreciation to Natalie Kononenko, Professor and Kule Chair of Ukrainian Ethnography, University of Alberta, Canada and one of the leading Slavic folklorists in North America. The...

Apollonio & Brintlinger

Chekhov for the 21st Century

One hundred fifty years after his birth, Anton Chekhov remains the most beloved Russian playwright in his own country, and in the English-speaking world he is second only to Shakespeare. His stories, deceptively simple, continue to serve as models...

Cooper, Henry

An Anthology of Croatian Literature

As a result of the slow dissolution and then violent collapse of the Yugoslav federation, the individualities of its literary traditions have come to the fore once again. This anthology, featuring excerpts from the works of 66 writers, spans 10...