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Dunning et al.

Rude and Barbarous Kingdom Revisited

This volume is respectfully and affectionately presented to Robert O. Crummey on the occasion of the fortieth anniversary of the publication of his famous compilation Rude & Barbarous Kingdom: Russia in the accounts of Sixteenth-Century English...

Bethea, David

American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists vol. 2: Literature

Contents Sharon Lubkemann Allen Navigating Past/Present: Modes of Mapping Cultural Memory in Post-Modern Russian and Luso-Brazilian Fiction     1 Todd Patrick Armstrong “Training for Brightness” in Hanna...

Bethin, Christina Y.

American Contributions to the 14th International Congress of Slavists vol. 1: Linguistics

Contents Ronelle Alexander Rhythmic Structure Constituents and Clitic Placement in Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian     1 Christina Y. Bethin On Quantity Dissimilation in East Slavic     21 Daniel E...

Miletich, John

Love Lyric and Other Poems of the Croatian Renaissance

Love Lyric and Other Poems of the Croatian Renaissance: A Bilingual Anthology is a revised and expanded edition of The Lute and the Lattice: Croatian Poetry of the 15th and 16th Centuries, first published in The Bridge (Zagreb), volume 25 (1971). The...

Timofeyeva-Yegorova, Anna

Red Sky, Black Death

Born in a tiny village amidst revolution and civil war, Anna Yegorova came of age during the grimmest years of Soviet power. An optimistic and resolute young patriot, she saw hope and vision in the nascent superpower's ideology. She volunteered to...

Hoogenboom et al.

Mapping the Feminine

From the Introduction: This volume honors the extraordinary life, path-breaking career, and pioneering scholarship of a truly modest woman—Professor Marina Viktorovna Ledkovsky, Barnard College emerita. Born into the old noble families of the...

Rouhier-Willoughby, Jeanmarie

Village Values

From the introduction: The rituals of wedding, delivery, and funeral provide us with an insight into how multiple strains of Russian culture from the October Revolution to the present have managed to coexist and evolve. All three rituals exhibit traces...

Mikos, Michael J.

Polish Literature from 1918-2000 - Hardcover

This double volume covers the periods from 1918 to 1939 and from 1945 to 2000 and constitutes the sixth and last part of the history and anthology of Polish literature from its beginnings to the year 2000. The task of making a comprehensive selection of...

Brandenberger, David

Political Humor under Stalin

Political Humor Under Stalin is an anthology of jokes, wisecracks, and satire from the Soviet 1930's and '40s that provides a glimpse of everyday dissembling and dissent in one of the modern world's most repressive societies. More than merely a joke...

Graham & Mesropova

Uncensored?

Uncensored? Reinventing Humor and Satire in Post-Soviet Russia is a wide-ranging scholarly analysis of humor and satire in Russia during the regimes of Boris Yeltsin and Vladimir Putin. The volume brings together an international group of emerging...

Horowitz, Brian

Empire Jews: Jewish Nationalism

In this unique book Brian Horowitz, Sizeler Family Chair Professor at Tulane University, articulates what is hidden in plain view: namely that many Jews in late-tsarist Russia were in love with its culture. Although they despised its government, large...

Jones, Jeffrey

Everyday Life and the “Reconstruction” of Soviet Russia During and After the Great Patriotic War, 1943-1948

Everyday Life and the "Reconstruction" of Soviet Russia During and After the Great Patriotic War, 1943–1948 reminds us of how little we know about the end of the war and the immediate post-war era in the Soviet Union. Jones uses the case of...