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Old Russian Possessive Constructions
De Gruyter 2011; US$ 140.00This book is a detailed study of the possessive semantic space within the framework of construction grammar. Using corpus data from Old Church Slavonic and Old Russian, the book uses semantic maps to document the relationship between form and meaning in a set of semantically closely related adnominal possessive constructions, and to trace their diachronic... more...
Rough Guide Phrasebook: Russian
Rough Guides 2012; US$ 8.99The Rough Guide Russian Phrasebook is the definitive phrasebook to help you make the most of your time in Russia. Whether you want to book a hotel room, ask what time the train leaves or buy a drink from the bar, this new phrasebook has a dictionary of over 5,000 words and will help you communicate with the locals in no time. The free audio downloads,... more...
Aspekte der sowjetrussischen Lexikographie
De Gruyter 1982; US$ 133.00Aspekte Der Sowjetrussischen Lexikographie: Bersetzungen, Abstracts, Bibliographische Angaben. 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...
Montaging Pushkin
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 100.80Montaging Pushkin offers for the first time a coherent view of Pushkins legacy to Russian twentieth-century poetry, giving many new insights. Pushkin is shown to be a Russian forerunner of Baudelaire. Furthermore it is argued that the rise of the Russian and European novel largely changed the ways Russian poets have looked at themselves and at... more...
One Less Hope
Editions Rodopi 2006; US$ 56.00This collection of essays, which should appeal both to Slavists and students of comparative literature, deals with twelve major twentieth-century Russian poets who, for varied reasons, became estranged from the Soviet state. Some stayed in Russia to become inner émigrés, others chose to go into exile in the West. One less hope, one more song... more...
The Legacy of Ancient Rome in the Russian Silver Age
Editions Rodopi 2007; US$ 61.60For poets throughout the world Rome was the world. This is particularly true for Russian poets, owing to the anagrammatical relation of the words Rome and mir (Rome and world). The legacy of ancient Rome has always constituted an important component of the Russian cultural consciousness. The revitalization of classical scholarship in nineteenth-century... more...
Kniga Urantii
Urantia Foundation 1997; US$ 8.95You have just discovered the literary masterpiece that answers your questions about God, life in the inhabited universe, the history and future of this world, and the life of Jesus. The Urantia Book harmonizes history, science, and religion into a philosophy of living that brings new meaning and hope into your life. If you are searching for answers,... more...
Performing Violence
Intellect 2009; US$ 20.00New Russian Drama began its rise at the end of the twentieth century, following a decline in dramatic writing in Russia that stemmed back to the 1980s. Authors Beumers and Lipovetsky examine the representation of violence in these new dramatic works penned by young Russian playwrights. Performing Violence is the first English-language study of the... more...








