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  • Essays on Revolutionary Culture

    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...

    $32.95
  • Imperial Power and Development

    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...

    $28.95
  • Lances Sing

    Mann, Robert

    Lances Sing

    Robert Mann reexamines the hypothesis that the Slovo o polku Igoreve is the work of a highly literate poet and concludes that the Slovo is more likely the text of a 12th-century court song. This study introduces a large number of new folkloric...

    $29.95
  • Aronson, Howard

    Georgian: A Reading Grammar

    Professor Aronson's book, originally published in 1982, was the first grammar of Georgian for beginners to be published in English. The goal of the book is to enable a student to read Georgian literature (primarily scholarly) with the aid of a...

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  • Twelve Stories

    LaRocco & Paperno

    Twelve Stories

    These short stories by Mikhail Zoshchenko, a classic of Soviet satire, were collected from various early editions. They include such gems as "Rodnye Liudi", "Seren'kii kozlik", "Bania," and other stories. No changes were made in the text. All idiomatic,...

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  • Неделя как неделя - Just Another Week

    Paperno et al.

    Неделя как неделя - Just Another Week

    This is a novelistic first-person account of a typical week in the life of a Soviet woman and her efforts to hold down two full-time jobs: one as a scientist in a laboratory, the other as a mother and wife. The general problem is a familiar one in...

    $19.95
  • The Darkling

    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...

    $27.95
  • Russian Verse Theory

    Scherr

    Russian Verse Theory

    Contents Foreword     9 Zsuzanna Bjorn Andersen The Concept of "Lyric Disorder"     11 James Bailey The Metrical Invariant in a Russian Lyric Folk Song     23 Jerzy...

    $34.95
  • Semiotics & Historical Culture

    Halle, Morris

    Semiotics & Historical Culture

    This publication was to honor the late Professor Jurij Lotman on the occasion of his sixtieth birthday.   I. Semioticheskie voprosy kul'tury.   A. H. Gurevich: "Videnie Turkillia": K probleme sootnosheniia uchenoi i fol'klornoi tradicii v...

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  • Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature

    McMillin, Arnold

    Aspects of Modern Russian and Czech Literature

    Contents Foreword by R. C. Elwood     5 Editorial Board     6 Introduction by Arnold McMillin     7 Ewa M. Thompson V. B. Shklovskii and the Russian Intellectual...

    $24.95
  • East European History

    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...

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