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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...

Gerald Janecek (ed.)

Staging the Image: Dmitry Prigov as Artist and Writer

Dmitry Prigov (1940–2007), the most prominent figure in Moscow Conceptualism, is not well known in the West because of a lack of English translations of his work and scholarship in English. This collection of articles by some of the most devoted...

Jan Novák; edited by Craig Cravens

So Far, So Good: The Mašín Family and the Greatest Story of the Cold War

This is the true story of three young Czech men whose daring exploits of anti-Communist resistance and 1953 flight to West Berlin set off the largest manhunt in the history of the Eastern Bloc. To this day, whether the Mašín brothers were...

Gwido Zlatkes et al. (eds.)

Duplicator Underground: The Independent Publishing Industry in Communist Poland, 1976-89

  “We envied the Russians their samizdat...and then we went a few steps further.” – Adam Michnik       Duplicator Underground is the first comprehensive in-depth English-language discussion of Polish...

Rothstein, Robert

More Words to the Wise

  This book is not about “things you always wanted to know about Polish but were afraid to ask,” but rather about “things about Polish you never imagined could be so interesting until Professor Rothstein began to talk about them...

Crone, Anna Lisa

Anna Lisa Crone: Collected Writings Volume 3: Collaborations, Prose Studies, and Other Works

The third volume of Anna Lisa Crone’s Collected Writings includes works which did not fit neatly into the thematics of the first two volumes. It features four outstanding jointly-authored works (among them a chapter from the book My Petersburg,...