The three short stories in this reader provide a window into the Soviet childhood experience in the years 1945-49, when the country was just beginning to recover from the devastation and hardships caused by the Second World War. The stories are semi-autobiographical, based on Ulitskaya's childhood memories, and each portrays child protagonists facing challenging situations in everyday life....

This is a parallel-text edition of 'Bronka,' a short story by Ludmila Ulitskaya, one of contemporary Russia's most popular and internationally acclaimed authors. First published in 1989, the story depicts the childhood and youth of Bronka, the eponymous heroine, who lives with her mother in a drab communal apartment in a rundown Moscow neighborhood in the years following the Second World War....

This annotated edition of 'Bronka' introduces students of Russian to a profoundly moving story by Ludmila Ulitskaya, one of Russia's most important contemporary novelists and short story writers. Ulitskaya's elegant prose, and her detailed descriptions of everyday life, makes 'Bronka' an excellent literary text for students of Russian language, literature, and culture.This reader is intended...

An adapted text of a popular science fiction novel, supplied with stress marks and a glossary. It is accompanied with exercises, vocabulary lists and illustrations.

The manual is intended for work with foreign servicemen who have reached a basic level of Russian language proficiency. The main purpose of the manual is to promote the development of students' speech on the material of the sublanguage of the specialty

The book presents the story 'The Diary of Fox Mickey' by the famous Russian writer of the early twentieth century Sasha Cherny. The work is written in the form of a diary from the perspective of a dog that can write. Fox Mickey talks about his amazing adventures, observations and discoveries. Together with him, readers will visit the Paris Zoo, see a performance at the circus, and take a boat...

A reader includes a short story about a young girl who grew up in a small Dagestan village and then grew up to become a kamikaze in Moscow bombings.

The adapted text of the popular mystery novel. The text supplies with the stress, questions and tasks, including testes, keys, English-Russian dictionary, illustrations.

Read in Your Field Series: International Trade. The reader includes 20 themes on various kinds of international trade. Each theme includes glossaries, text, and 12-15 exercises based on the text content.