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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...

Horowitz & Ginsburg

Bounded Mind and Soul: Russia and Israel, 1880–2010

In Bounded Mind and Soul, twelve leading scholars grapple with questions about the complex relationship between Israel and Russia. What are their mutual interests? What are the areas of conflict? And how has the immigration of more than one million Jews...

Israeli, Alina

What you always wanted to know about Russian grammar but were afraid to ask

What You Always Wanted to Know about Russian Grammar (*But Were Afraid to Ask) begins where textbooks and conventional grammars leave off: with the perplexing, poorly explained, often maddening aspects of Russian that drive English-speaking students...

Beinek & Kosicki

Re-Mapping Polish-German Historical Memory

This volume exploits the analytical category of "space" to unify the various disciplinary approaches and thematic concentrations applied here to the dynamics of historical memory within and between the Germans and Poles. This category has proven...

Finke et al.

From Petersburg to Bloomington: Studies Presented in Honor of Nina Perlina

Colleagues and former studens of Nina Perlina, Professor Emerita of Slavic Languages and Literature at Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, have assembled a volume of essays reflecting her research and teaching foci: the Petersburg theme in Russian...

Wolitz, Seth

Yiddish Modernism Studies in 20th Century Eastern Europe: Jewish Culture

Yiddish Modernism: Studies in Twentieth-Century Eastern European Jewish Culture is a presentation of what enters into the construction of Yiddish modernism, with “Yiddish modernism” being a working term. In 25 articles published over the...

Olga Miseka Tomič

A Grammar of Macedonian

A Grammar of Macedonian is the first comprehensive reference grammar to this language couched in the framework of generative grammar. The author has ensured cross-framework accessibility of the data by the constrained use of technical...

Nørgård-Sørensen, Jens

Russian Nominal Semantics and Morphology

The principal idea behind this book is that lexis and grammar make up a single coherent structure. It is shown that the grammatical patterns of the different classes of Russian nominals are closely interconnected. They can be described as...

Hunt et al.

Holy Foolishness in Russia: New Perspectives

This richly illustrated volume’s innovative intersciplinary approaches and engagement with the newest scholarly literature presents a new basis for exploration of holy foolishness in Russia as a unique expression of national identity. Its...