The journal for the Union of Russian Writers. Each monthly issues includes new fiction, poetry and diffferent topics.

The manual is built on the basis of texts of the epistolary genre: letters and short messages. The authors have selected discussion topics for discussion in the group, directly related to the content of the letters and addressing the personal experience of students. The system of tasks proposed by the authors is aimed at updating and expanding the vocabulary, improving communication skills,...

This book is a living classic about humanism, new meanings of old words, media coverage of wars and true love.

This book is the fifth edition of the textbook 'Types of the Russian verb: meaning and use.' In it, for the first time, an attempt is made to rationally take into account the experience of practical teaching of verb types to foreigners, accumulated by methodological science over the past four decades. For the first time, the theory of teaching the types of the Russian verb to foreigners is...

On September 30, 1919, local law enforcement in rural Phillips County, Arkansas, attacked black sharecroppers at a meeting of the Progressive Farmers and Household Union of America. The next day, hundreds of white men from the Delta, along with US Army troops, converged on the area 'with blood in their eyes.' What happened next was one of the deadliest incidents of racial violence in the...

This is the extraordinary story of Spain, from early tribalism and Roman rule to the Moorish conquest, Spain's eighteenth-century revival under the Bourbons, the Peninsular War and revolution in Spanish America right up to the catastrophic civil war and Franco's totalitarian regime. A key theme from Columbus's first voyage in 1492 was Spain's trans-oceanic empire which was central to the...

Despite the Roman Empire's famous 500-year reign over Europe, parts of Africa and the Middle East, Italy does not have the same long national history as states such as France or England. Divided for much of its history, Italy's regions have been, at various times, parts of bigger, often antagonistic empires, notably those of Spain and Austria. In addition, its challenging and varied terrain...

Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always felt halfway home in each place. In vivid poems, she shares what it was like to grow up as an African American in the 1960s and 1970s, living with the remnants of Jim Crow and her growing awareness of the Civil Rights movement. Touching and powerful, each poem is both accessible and emotionally charged, each line a glimpse into a child's...

A prize winning Siamese Cat has been stolen, and all evidence points to the Find-Outers' friend Luke. Fatty Larry, Daisy, Pip and Bets know Luke is innocent, but how can they prove it? The Find-Outers have another mystery to solve!

These nursery rhymes for the little ones are full of recognizable stories. Here are the grandchildren going to their grandmother. Here is a family eating porridge and washing dishes. And this is Mitenka, who does not want to get up. The book is illustrated with live, cheerful pictures by Mikhail Romadin. Komi-Permian folk songs. Retelling by Lev Ivanovich Kuzmin.