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Levin, Jules

Reading Modern Russian

An innovative and sophisticated textbook for teaching beginning students to read Russian in the shortest possible time. The emphasis is upon expository prose. All of the time normally devoted to learning to write, speak, and understand spoken Russian is...

Kodjak

Pushkin's I. P. Belkin

By an analysis of the information about Belkin and the circumstances of the writing of the work, it is shown that Pushkin intended the work as a coded message concerning December 1825 and the events which followed. Contents Part I: Decoding 1...

Gribble, Charles E.

Russian Root List, 2nd Ed.

An essential book for every student and teacher of Russian. Helps students increase their vocabulary and remember words better because they understand how the meanings are derived. "The book is a small miracle." (SEEJ) "It can be recommended without...

Levin, Maurice

Russian Declension & Conjugation

An important and widely-used text on the structure of Russian, of use to teachers, graduate students, and advanced undergraduate language students. Contents:I. Structural TranscriptionII. Noun StressIII. Noun Declension;IV. Adjective DeclensionV...

Townsend, Charles

Russian Word Formation

A practical, general description of Russian derivational morphology aimed at a wide audience. Of use to Russian linguists, specialists in the Russian language, graduate students in Slavic languages and literatures, teachers of Russian, and, taught...

Journal of Slavic Linguistics Subscription

Journal of Slavic Linguistics or JSL, is the official journal of the Slavic Linguistics Society. JSL publishes research articles and book reviews that address the description and analysis of Slavic languages and that are of general interest to linguists...

Alexander Rojavin

The Predictability of the Past

A bear self-begets in an ordinary Russian family’s bathroom, Pushkin accidentally survives his duel with d’Anthès, and the ill-fated family of a small boy born in prerevolutionary Russia stumbles through the 20th century all the way...

Yevsey Tseytlin, translated by Alexander Rojavin

Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death

Yevsey Tseytlin’s Long Conversations in Anticipation of a Joyous Death  came about as the result of an unusual experiment. The subject of this book is unusual and deceptively simple: two authors, one young, one old and ailing, maintain a...

Edited by Hilary Bird

An Introduction to Estonian Literature

Hilary Bird’s Introduction to Estonian Literature is truly a pioneering work, and a welcome contribution for anyone with an interest in the lively and flourishing literature of this small but culturally vibrant country. Ms. Bird’s coverage...

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...

Frary, Lucien J. (ed.)

Thresholds into the Orthodox Commonwealth: Essays in honor of Theofanis G. Stavrou

This volume is a tribute to Theofanis G. Stavrou, Professor of Russian and Near Eastern History and Director of Modern Greek Studies at the University of Minnesota. A generous and penetrating scholar, as well as an award-winning teacher and mentor,...

Magdalena Mullek and Julia Sherwood (eds.)

Into the Spotlight: New Writing from Slovakia

"There are stories that could have taken place anywhere - of love and hate, beauty and ugliness, illness and music - stories distinctly and intriguingly Slovak..."     Into the Spotlight features the best of what Slovak literature has to offer...