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Darden, Bill J.

Studies in Phonological Theory and Historical Linguistics

This book provides some of the fruits of a career teaching Slavic linguistics and phonological theory. Bill Darden was trained in both Prague-School linguistics and generative phonology, and integrates both in his work. He was among the early proponents...

Masha Belyavski-Frank

Grapevine and Rose: Muslim Oral Ballads from Bosnia-Herzegovina

An important part of Balkan folk literature, oral ballads of the Muslims in Bosnia-Herzegovina are part of the European tradition of ballads. One of the broad themes that one encounters repeatedly in Bosnian Muslim oral ballads is the stepping outside of...

Mikoś, Michael J

City of Memory: A Bilingual Anthology of Contemporary Polish Poetry

City of Memory brings together 122 poems written by 21 authors in the last quarter century. These writers draw upon the deep-rooted tradition of Polish literature established by poets like Kochanowski, Norwid, and Herbert, whose worldviews and...

Tore Nesset

How Russian Came to be the Way It Is: A Student’s Guide to the History of the Russian Language

Time machines do not exist, but books are good substitutes. This book takes you two thousand years back in time and explains how the Russian language came to be the way it is by reviewing all major changes in the grammar and sound system. In addition...

Adele Lindenmeyr and Melissa K. Stockdale (eds.)

RGWR V10: Women and Gender in Russia’s Great War and Revolution, 1914–22

World War I, followed by four more years of revolution and civil conflict, exerted its power to both liberate and destroy in Russia on a scale unsurpassed elsewhere in Europe. It accelerated improvements in women’s status and employment...

David R. Stone et al. (eds.)

RGWR V5, B3: The Russian Civil War: Military and Society

This book--one of two covering the Russian Civil War in a volume on military affairs during Russia’s Great War and Revolution--explores institutions, social groups, and social conflict amid the chaos of the war that followed the Russian...

David R. Stone et al. (eds.)

RGWR V5, B2: The Russian Civil War: Campaigns and Operations

This book--one of two covering the Russian Civil War in a volume on military affairs during Russia’s Great War and Revolution--explores the military history of the Russian Civil War. Drawing heavily on research from Russian historians but including...

Korine Amacher et al.

RGWR V9: Biographical Itineraries, Individual Experiences, Autobiographical Reflections

This volume investigates how the revolutionary events of 1917–21 shaped biographies both in Russia and Western Europe and how people tried to make sense of the political developments during these years in self-testimonies like diaries and...

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye et al

RGWR V8, B2: Revolution and Civil War

Historians devote a great deal of attention to the diplomacy that led Russia into the Great War, but have tended to neglect the course of this diplomacy once the fighting erupted. This volume addresses that lacuna with a broad range of essays...

David Schimmelpenninck van der Oye et al. (eds.)

RGWR V8, B1: Origins and War

Historians devote a great deal of attention to the diplomacy that led Russia into the Great War, but have tended to neglect the course of this diplomacy once the fighting erupted. This volume addresses that lacuna with a broad range of essays...

Deak, John et. al. (eds.)

RGWR V7: Enemy Visions and Encounters

This volume brings together the work of researchers in North America, Central and Eastern Europe, and Turkey, who are generating important, archivally based scholarship in their respective fields, languages, and nations of study. The larger goal of...

Choi Chatterjee, et al (eds.)

RGWR V6, B2, Pt 2: The Wider Arc of Revolution

The Russian Revolution of 1917 was quickly perceived by both contemporaries and subsequent scholars as not merely a domestic event within the Russian Empire, but as a systemic crisis that fundamentally challenged the assumptions underpinning the...