The goal of this textbook is to improve students' levels of spoken, linguistic, and communicative competence. Graphic tutorials, such as charts, tables and structural analysis help promote acquisition of the material. This book has a system of introductory questions and tasks, as well as training exercises, preliminary and comprehensive exams. The appendices present extensive supplemental...

The well-known historian Sergey Semanov, author of dozens of books, traces the history of Russian-Jewish relations in Russia, and also writes about the role of Russia's political parties in the spiritual revival of the Fatherland. Do Russians actually love themselves, do they value their own Russian world, created by the centuries, and do they value their national ways and traditions?...

This manual attempts to answer some of the more difficult linguistic questions concerning Russian, such as the enrichment of Slavic languages through foreign borrowings and complications due to new word combinations, created mainly through borrowings from European languages. Language is examined as a dynamic system, open to new elements, which is constantly being enriched and transformed,...

The manual is devoted to one the most important aspects of modern Russian language - word formation. The author introduces students to the modern theory of word formation and specific features of Russian word formation.

This encyclopedic dictionary/handbook of linguistic terms and concepts represents a first integrated edition on Russian language with an educational character. The dictionary contains not only commentary, but also descriptions of general basic concepts and concepts of Russian linguistics. It is accessible to a wide range of readers: advanced high school students, language teachers, students...

First published in 1956, this manual explores aspects of translation of Russian classics into English (Lermontov, Turgenev, Chekhov, Gorky, Fadeev, Gladkov, Simonov, Fedin, Popov). In addition to Russian classics, the manual includes excerpts from author's articles about Shakespeare and translations of his work made by Pasternak.

Discuss Global Issues and Repeat Russian Grammar. Manual with texts on contemporary issues, exercises, and grammar comments. The topics include: problems of big cities; migration of population; intellectual emigration; issues of demography; globalization and anti-globalists; social inequality - rich and poor; middle class; unemployment; issues of higher education; science and morals; crisis...