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 cinematic ouevre of the Yugoslav writer Danilo Kiš (1935, Subotica, Yugoslavia – 1989, Paris). Coming from a multicultural background, Kiš was a living antipode to the emerging nationalisms of the late 20th century. The seven dramas and screenplays are accompanied by a historical introduction by the translator. Written in...

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 nation as its economy was shifting from total dependence on agriculture to a mixed industrial/agricultural model during the Industrial Revolution....

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 Poland’s and Czechoslovakia’s war efforts. It soon developed into federalist concepts, leading, in turn, to particular political gestures: the Polish-Czechoslovak Declaration of November 11, 1940; a joint project of a constitution of a future Polish-Czechoslovak...

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...

Ruben David Gonzalez Gallego is a Russian writer, grandson of the General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Peoples of Spain and a graduate of a Soviet orphanage for disabled children. His documentary confession novel “White on Black” (Russian Booker Prize for 2003), translated into dozens of languages, created a sensation among the reading public, the circles of which still diverge. on...

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...

This manual introduces etiquette formulas that are used in modern Russian language in various styles of speech. Language material is offered in speech situations, which are supported by the author's drawings. Recommended for adults learning Russian as a foreign language at level A1 and above.

Boy Matty lives with his blind mentor in the Village, which is famous for its hospitality. Here, in search of help and support, they flee from many settlements where people are angry and indifferent, and mores are cruel. The boy is happy, but the world, which seemed to have gained some stability, is changing again. Something ominous gradually penetrates into the Village, and the Forest...

This manual contains training materials, focused on the new standard of the British school exam in Russian GCSE. The proposed sample assignments are organized by subject and reveal student skills that enable them to successfully participate in the role-playing game and describe the pictures. Each topic is presented in two versions - for the student and for the teacher. Tasks of this type do not...

This work is an attempt by the author to help linguists to master one of the many layers of English sports terminology, and to representatives of a wonderful game and journalists and TV commentators in Russia and the CIS who are covering, to improve their knowledge of English. The English-Russian encyclopedic dictionary of hockey terminology is not only a collection of a large number of hockey...