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Mikos, Michael J.

Polish Baroque & Enlightenment

Polish Baroque and Enlightenment Literature (covering the period from the late sixteenth to the early nineteenth centuries) follows Professor Mikos's well-received Polish Renaissance Literature, published by Slavica in 1995. As was the case with the...

Paperno & Iordanskaya

A Russian-English Collocational Dictionary of the Human Body

This remarkable book is an exhaustive combinatorial Russian-English dictionary of a small group of words that are of more than passing interest in everyday life and language. The dictionary contains 73 entries: 63 parts of the body, plus 10 words...

laura janda & charles townsend

Common and Comparative Slavic

Townsend and Janda's book provides a thorough description of the phonology and inflection of Late Common Slavic with copious background on its precursors and a detailed survey of its stages of development. The comparative approach is blended in from the...

Tucker, Janet

Revolution Betrayed

In the novel Envy Jurij Olesha addressed one of the most critical issues of his time -- the impact of the October Revolution on Soviet intellectuals. This issue is part of the larger cultural and literary paradigm which surfaced in the nineteenth...

Poe, Marshall

Foreign Descriptions of Muscovy

Foreign accounts of Muscovy have long been recognized as fundamental historical sources. Generally speaking, they relate two kinds of evidence for those interested in early modern affairs. First, the accounts provide ample information about...

Birnbaum, Henrik

Novgorod in Focus

Contents Forward, by V.L. Yanin           9 Prefatory Note           11 1.  Novgorod Between East and West          15 2.   When and How Was Novgorod Converted...

Karras, Thomas

A Concise Eng-Rus Phrase Book

This is a different type of phrase book: it is not intended primarily for travelers, but rather for all students of Russian, from the elementary through advanced levels. The sample page reprinted on the opposite page of this catalog gives an idea of the...

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...

Hancock, Ian

A Handbook of Vlax Romani

Although there are over nine million Roma (plural of Rom, the correct name for those people who have been more often referred to as "Gypsies" in English) in Europe and North America (plus many more all over the world), no usable modern grammar of their...

Mikos, Michael J.

Polish Renaissance Literature

This is the first collection of texts in English devoted solely to the rich literature, both prose and poetry, of the Polish Renaissance. The book presents in a fresh and accessible form the greatest texts from a golden age of Poland's literature,...

Semeka-Pankratov, Elena

Studies in Poetics

Contents Introduction Elena Semeka-Pankratov Editor's Preface:     ix Henryk Baran Krystyna Pomorska as Scholar: A Quest for Structure     xi A Tribute to Krystyna Pomorska Elzbieta Chodakowska...

Cubberly, Paul

Handbook of Russian Affixes

This is a concise dictionary of Russian affixes, classified into Prefixes (total 60) and Suffixes (Nouns -- 219, Adjectives -- 100, Verbs -- 20) -- a grand total of some 390 affixes, which is a virtually exhaustive list of all Russian affixes. It is...