A collection of 13 (elementary), 16 (intermediate), and 18 (intermediate-advanced) topics for class discussion with questions and glossaries.

Sergei Dovlatov was born in an evacuation and died in exile. As a writer, he formed in Leningrad, but success came to him in America, where he lived since 1979. His artistic thought with apparent paradoxicality, grounded in life experience, is simple and noble: to tell how strangely people live - then sadly laughing, then ridiculously sad. There are no righteous people in his books, because...

New Adversaries and New Opportunities. This volume aims to inspire students, researchers and citizens around the world to critically engage with Open Society values and to defend them wherever they are at risk.

John Steinbeck's cult novel The Grapes of Wrath was first published in America in 1939, received the Pulitzer Prize, and the author himself was later awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. To date, Grapes of Anger are included in many of the curricula of schools and colleges in the United States. During the Great Depression, a family of ruined farmers is forced to leave their home in Oklahoma....

Monograph about peasant riots against Soviet state in Volga region in 1917-1922.

Political police on the guard of morality. The monograph describes the work of political police during 1826-1866, the methods of police, and its ways of influencing the public.

Eight short stores with parallel translation into English language. Includes comments.

Simultaneous and consecutive interpretation. Recommendations for translators/interpreters.

The dictionary contains 5,000 Russian words and 5,000 Georgian words grouped into 100 different topics, including about 400 sections: car, army, architecture, airport, bank, hospital, time, geographical names, city, money, etc. In the dictionary dictionary gives the phonetic transcription of all Georgian words. At the end of the dictionary are two indexes of Russian and Georgian words...

The purpose of the third part of the textbook is to continue to form pupils' speech skills that allow them to meet their communicative needs in the social, social, cultural, educational and professional sphere of communication and meet the requirements of the First Certification Level (Level B1).