Russian category: 1194 books

Fluo!‘s Russian Pocket Dictionary, authoritative and comprehensive, is a bi-directional (English-Russian & Russian-English) Dictionary, with a wide selection of thousands of lemmas and definitions. An indispensable reference for any student of Russian or English, as well as professionals and translators. 

This intensive foundation course in Russian is designed for students with no previous knowledge of the language. Developed primarily for classroom use, the course offers an original and distinctive approach to language learning, presenting Russian in context offering access to Russian life, culture,...

Modern 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....

The volume consists of five sections dealing with basic Russian grammar structures that correspond to be, can, have, there is and other basic Present Simple patterns in English. Each section contains 250 sample sentences on fifty topics. The book is aimed at the development of the learner's fluency...

The Russian formalists emerged from the Russian Revolution with ideas about the independence of literature. They enjoyed that independence until Stalin shut them down. By then, however, they had produced essays that remain among the best defenses ever written for both literature and its theory. Included...

This thoroughly tested reference work provides an unusually comprehensive guide to the reading, speaking, and writing of Russian for both advanced and beginning students. Using the new orthography, it is most useful for literary, scientific, political, and commercial translation. Over 70,000 entries...

This small but concise book provides two powerful components of language learning. First, a brief introduction describes how each individual is hardwired for language learning and gives tips to tap into this natural language ability. This introduction is further broken out into sections: “Why this...

The volume consists of three sections: Fifty Topics (Present Simple), Special Training on Past Simple and Fifty Topics (Past Simple). Each topic in Section One contains basic Russian grammar structures that correspond to be, can, have, there is and other basic verbs in Present Simple in English. The...

A dual-language edition of Russian stories—many appearing in English for the first time This new volume of ten short stories offers students at all levels the opportunity to enjoy a wide range of contemporary literature without constantly having to refer to a dictionary. The stories—many...

"English - Russian Proverbs and Sayings" is a compilation of English proverbs with their Russian equivalents.  This book is for Russian learners who would like to season their speech and sound like a native speaker  

In this book, first published in 1943, Janko Lavrin provides an overview of the development of the Russian novel by placing the great Russian novelists – Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Gorky, Gogol – in relation to their native literature and their social, political and cultural backgrounds. An...

Lying at the intersection of translatology, cognitive science and linguistics, this brief provides a comprehensive framework for studying, investigating and teaching English-Russian/Russian-English non-literary translation. It provides a holistic perspective on the process of non-literary translation,...

Writers have a difficult time making a living in contemporary Russia. Market-driven publishing companies have pushed serious domestic prose to the fringes of their output and few people have money to buy books. The disintegration of the Soviet Union in 1991 led Russian society to become polarized...

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the Russian Revolution, the University of Notre Dame Press is proud to publish Nobel Prize–winner Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn’s epic work March 1917, Node III, Book 1, of The Red Wheel. The Red Wheel is Solzhenitsyn’s magnum opus about the Russian Revolution....