The manual on stylistics for learners of Russian gives an introduction into basic concepts of stylistics, such as various functional styles and a dialogue. Manual includes exercises, questions for self-check, and tests. Topics include: Book and colloquial styles of speech, Official and informal situations of dialogue, Oral and written speech (dialogue, tactics of dialogue, the letter, dialogue...

The book contains over 200 photographs, covering the entire period of the existence of the armored forces of the Third Reich: from their creation in the run-up to the coming war to the last bloody and hopeless battles in 1945. Previously unpublished photographic materials were recently obtained from European state archives, as well as from the personal collections of veterans of German tank...

The author is a veteran of World War Two (western Front, 33rd Army, 557th PAP RGK) and took part in the Victory parade on the 24th of June 1945. From 1963 on he served in the General Staff and the MoD USSR where he actively took part in planning for arms production of arms development for the Soviet Army.

This book by the renowned Russian historian, Doctor of Historical Sciences V. Telitsyn, is the first to describe the history of the Spanish Civil War without ideological bias, which fundamentally distinguishes it from similar publications that appeared in the USSR. It is a truthful and unembellished account of Soviet military specialists and advisors fulfilling their patriotic duty abroad, a...

A collection of letters written by Alla Demidova to Tom Bulter. They started writing in 1990, and their correspondence lasted 15 years. Tom Butler is a Harvard University professor and Alla Demidova is a famous Russian actress.

This book presents readers with an 'epistolary' look at Ilia Ilf. This first unabridged edition contains letters to his wife and friends, which were written over a 15 year period (1921-1936). There are no letters to Evgenii Petrov, however, since the two were practically never parted. The envelopes have stamps from Odessa, Moscow, Leningrad, and also cities in Europe and the United States....