Category Archives: Russian

Modern Russian Grammar: A Practical Guide (Modern Grammars)

Modern Russian Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference guide to Russian, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as agreement, nouns, verbs … Continue reading

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Using Russian Vocabulary (Using (Cambridge))

Provides the student of Russian with an in-depth, structured approach to the learning of vocabulary. Containing over 5000 words, it can be used for intermediate and advanced undergraduate courses, or as a supplementary manual at all levels – including elementary … Continue reading

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Schaum’s Outline of Russian Grammar, Second Edition

The guide that helps students study faster, learn better, and get top grades More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum’s to help them study faster, learn better, and get top grades. Now Schaum’s is better than ever-with a new … Continue reading

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Dostoevsky and the Russian People

Russian popular culture and folklore were a central theme in Dostoevsky’s work, and folklore imagery permeates his fiction. Dostoevsky and the Russian People is a comprehensive study of the people and folklore in his art. Linda Ivanits investigates the integration … Continue reading

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Pushkin’s Lyric Intelligence

Alexander Pushkin (1799-1837) is Russia’s greatest poet, a ‘founding father’ of modern Russian literature, and a major figure in world literature. His poetry and prose changed the course of Russian culture, and his works inspired operas by Musorgsky and Tchaikovsky … Continue reading

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Lectures on Differential Geometry (Ems Series of Lectures in Mathematics)

Differential geometry studies geometrical objects using analytical methods. Like modern analysis itself, differential geometry originates in classical mechanics. For instance, geodesics and minimal surfaces are defined via variational principles and the curvature of a curve is easily interpreted as the … Continue reading

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Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics

Vladimir Nabokov’s “Western choice”—his exile to the West after the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution—allowed him to take a crucial literary journey, leaving the closed nineteenth-century Russian culture behind and arriving in the extreme openness of twentieth-century America. In Imagining Nabokov: Russia … Continue reading

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The Cambridge Introduction to Russian Literature (Cambridge Introductions to Literature)

Russian literature arrived late on the European scene. Within several generations, its great novelists had shocked – and then conquered – the world. In this introduction to the rich and vibrant Russian tradition, Caryl Emerson weaves a narrative of recurring … Continue reading

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Elsevier’s Dictionary of Geography: in English, Russian, French, Spanish and German

Geography is a system of highly developed sciences about the environment. Geographical science embracing the study of the Earth’s physical phenomena, people and their economic activities has always been in need of an extensive terminology. Geographical terms are related to … Continue reading

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Russian Phrases For Dummies

Traveling in a foreign country such as Russia suddenly becomes a lot more exciting when you can engage in elegant small talk with the locals. Russian Phrases For Dummies is your handy guide to everyday words and phrases you can … Continue reading

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