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Dostoevsky and the Russian People
Cambridge University Press 2008; US$ 30.00A detailed analysis of Dostoevsky's thought about folklore and his uses of popular culture and imagery in his work. more...
Modern Russian Grammar Workbook
Taylor and Francis 2008; US$ 41.95Modern Russian Grammar: A Practical Guide is an innovative reference guide to Russian, combining traditional and function-based grammar in a single volume. The Grammar is divided into two parts. Part A covers traditional grammatical categories such as agreement, nouns, verbs and adjectives. Part B is carefully organized around language functions... more...
Aspect and Reference Time
Oxford University Press, UK 2006; US$ 54.99extremely lucid and forceful...This book is exceptionally clear and well written...I wish there were more semantic and syntactic texts of this exceptional clarity and reader-friendliness. - Roumyana Slabakova, Folia Linguistica more...
Schaum's Outline of Russian Grammar
McGraw-Hill 2009; US$ 21.95The guide that helps students study faster, learn better, and get top grades. More than 40 million students have trusted Schaum's to help them study faster, learn better, and get top grades. Now Schaum's is better than ever-with a new look, a new format with hundreds of practice problems, and completely updated information to conform to the... more...
Thinking Russian Translation
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 44.95Russian Translation: Theory and Practice is a comprehensive practical course in translation for advanced undergraduate and postgraduate students of Russian. The course aims to provide intensive exposure with a view to mastering translation from Russian into English while carefully analyzing the specific problems that arise in the translation process.... more...
Using Russian Vocabulary
Cambridge University Press 2009; US$ 50.00An in-depth, structured learning guide to the vocabulary of Russian. more...
The Chinese Translation of Russian Literature
BRILL 2008; US$ 177.00Offers a history of the translation, transmission and interpretation of modernist Russian literature in China during the first half of the 20th century. This book shows the crucial role of English, German and Japanese translations in mediating knowledge of Russian literature in China. more...
Historical Chinese Letter Writing
Continuum International Publishing 2010; US$ 140.00Focussing on Qing Dynasty (1644-1911) letter writing, this compendium is an outstanding study of historical Chinese communication. Letter writing is a pivotal yet neglected medium of historical Chinese communication. The epistolary format is key to sinological research. As historical letters have a specific vocabulary and rhetorical structure it is... more...
The Military Uses of Literature
ABC-CLIO 1996; US$ 175.00This book studies the made-to-order genre of socialist-realist fiction that was produced at the direction of the Main Political Directorate of the Soviet Army and Navy (MPD) as a part of the war for men's minds waged by the Soviet State. The first chapter is a history of the genre, tracing it from its roots in the Revolution to the dissolution of the... more...
A Calendar of Wisdom
Scribner 2010; US$ 24.00This is the first-ever English-language edition of the book Leo Tolstoy considered to be his most important contribution to humanity, the work of his life's last years. Widely read in prerevolutionary Russia, banned and forgotten under Communism; and recently rediscovered to great excitement, A Calendar of Wisdom is a day-by-day guide that illuminates... more...









