This book is the first attempt to bridge the divide between studies addressing ôeconomic nationalismö as a deliberate ideology and movement of economic ônation-building,ö and the literature concerned with more diffuse expressions of economic ônationnessö

ck London attracts readers with its sincerity, wealth of imagination, dangerous adventures and extraordinary vitality. At the end of the 19th century gold was found in Alaska, and people from all over the world rushed to find their happiness. A young writer from San Francisco, Christopher Bellew, tired of working too hard for a magazine, goes with his uncle to Klondike to help his relatives....

Before you is a book from the series Classics in School, which contains all the works studied in elementary school, middle and high schools. Do not waste time searching for literary works, because these books have everything you need to read in the school curriculum: for reading in the classroom and for out-of-class assignments. Rid your child of long searches and lessons not learned. The book...

The book includes the fairy tale of P. Ershov The Little Humpbacked Horse, which is studied in primary school.

In the book, Radishchev takes an imaginary journey between Russia's two principal cities; each stop along the way reveals particular problems for the traveller through the medium of story telling. The work, often described as a Russian Uncle Tom's Cabin, is a polemical study of the problems in the Russia of Catherine the Great: serfdom, the powers of the nobility, the issues in government and...

This volume of translations represents the entire dramatic and cinematicáouevreáof the Yugoslav writer Danilo KiÜ (1935, Subotica, Yugoslavia û 1989, Paris). Coming from a multicultural background, KiÜ was a living antipode to the emerging nationalisms of

This important work by American historian Jeffrey Taylor, who spent the last two decades in Hungary and earned his PhD at Central European University in Budapest, serves to detail the nineteenth-century origin of the art market in a Central European natio

In recent years, a remarkable flourishing of works on the postwar history of social science and humanities disciplines led to the growing configuration of a field of “Cold War social science” research. Yet in spite of its thematic diversity, and with few exceptions, the geography of the field remains overwhelmingly North American and Western European. This volume brings in the perspective of...

The genesis of the federalist thought that the book discusses is the project beginning in the fall of 1939 about the idea of combining PolandÆs and CzechoslovakiaÆs war efforts. It soon developed into federalist concepts, leading, in turn, to particular p

With a deep semantic unity, the prose of Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008) is distinguished by an amazing poetic variety. In the early 1960s, this was felt by the readers of the first published stories of an unexpectedly great, truly new writer: One Day by Ivan Denisovich was followed by strongly dissimilar with him The Case at Kochetovka Station and Matryonin Dvor. Every time new artistic...

Рубен Давид Гонсалес Гальего – русский писатель, внук генерального секретаря Коммунистической партии народов Испании и воспитанник советского интерната для детей-инвалидов. Его документальный роман-исповедь «Белое на черном» (премия «Русский Букер» за 2003 год), переведенный на десятки языков, произвел фурор в среде читающей публики, круги от которого расходятся до сих пор.Прервав...

The manual is an integral part of the educational complex, addressed to foreign students who speak Russian at a level close to the TRKI-2 (general knowledge). Designed to prepare for passing the certification examinations TRKI-2 (subtests Reading, Speaking) and can be useful to achieve communicative competence of the stated level and enhance lexical and grammatical skills. The manual is built...