This book is a large-scale study of successful Russian films that have worked for several decades to strengthen the ideology of the Putin regime. You have probably seen many of them and even loved them. But what values do these films convey? How do they teach us to look at the past and what myths do they create? Why are Danila Bagrov and Sasha Bely national heroes in Russia? And why are...

A magical island. A dangerous task. A burning secret.

The Chronicles of Narnia is a series of seven fantasy novels for children written by C. S. Lewis. The Chronicles of Narnia presents the adventures of children who play central roles in the unfolding history of the fictional realm of Narnia, a place where animals talk, magic is common, and good battles evil. Each of the books (with the exception of The Horse and His Boy) features as its...

This educational manual presents 20 biographical texts about well-known and talented people who were born in Russia, but for one reason or another lived outside of Russia. These are people who have achieved the highest results in their professional fields and captivated those around them in the fields of science, art, and sport. The manual is intended for learners at various levels of Russian....

The manual is intended to introduce foreign students to one of the most beautiful cities in Europe and the world - St. Petersburg, which is rightly called the cultural capital of Russia. It contains texts dedicated to the most important cultural and historical events in the life of the city. A clear and precise system of pretext, pretext and post-textual exercises already at the early stage of...

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...

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....

Through circumstances that tend to preclude adult, secondhand description, he leaves his prep school in Pennsylvania and goes underground in New York City for three days. The boy himself is at once too simple and too complex for us to make any final comment about him or his story. Perhaps the safest thing we can say about Holden is that he was born in the world not just strongly attracted to...