Author: George PatrickPublisher: McGraw-Hill Education
ISBN: 9780844242675
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
A book about Russian words and phrases for English-speaking learners of Russian.
Author: Charles E. GribbleRoots of Russia's War in Ukraine
Author: Elizabeth A. WoodPublisher: Columbia University Press
ISBN: 0231801386
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
In February 2014, Russia initiated a war in Ukraine, its reasons for aggression unclear. Each of this volume's authors offers a distinct interpretation of Russia's motivations, untangling the social, historical, and political factors that created this war and continually reignite its tensions. What prompted President Vladimir Putin to send troops into Crimea? Why did the conflict spread to eastern Ukraine with Russian support? What does the war say about Russia's political, economic, and social priorities, and how does the crisis expose differences between the EU and Russia regarding international jurisdiction? Did Putin's obsession with his macho image start this war, and is it preventing its resolution? The exploration of these and other questions gives historians, political watchers, and theorists a solid grasp of the events that have destabilized the region.
Author: William M. Reisinger
Author: Григорий Осипович ВинокурRoots of the Russian Language
Author: George PatrickPublisher: McGraw Hill Professional
ISBN: 0071783245
Category : Foreign Language Study
Languages : en
Pages : 248
Book Description
Designed to help students of Russian increase their knowledge of wordbuilding and, as a result, increase their vocabulary, "Roots of the Russian Knowledge" includes 450 of the most commonly used roots of the Russian language. After mastering Russian prefixes and suffixes, students develop an ability to construct words and terms from a given Russian root.
How Russian Came to be the Way it is
Author: Tore NessetPublisher:
ISBN: 9780893574437
Category : Proto-Slavic language
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Introduction: today's exceptions; yesterday's rules -- The scene: from prehistory to Peter I "The Great" -- The texts: writing and literature in Kievan Rus' and Muscovy -- The toolbox: linguistic tools for analyzing the history of Russian -- Morphology: nouns -- Morphology: pronouns -- Morphology: adjectives -- Morphology: numbers and numerals -- Morphology: verbs -- Syntax -- Phonology: pre-Slavic and common Slavic vowels and diphthongs -- Phonology: pre-Slavic and common Slavic consonants -- Phonology: from old Rusian to modern Russian -- Phonology: stress and vowel reduction -- A visit from Novgorod: the language of the birch bark -- Letters -- Epilogue: reflections on a triangle.
The Everything Learning Russian Book with CD
Author: Julia StakhnevichPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1598693875
Category : Books with discs
Languages : en
Pages : 320
Book Description
Whether you're planning a trip to Russia or adding a second language to your resume, this book will help you to: recognize and read Cyrillic letters; pronounce Russian words like a native; ask for directions, order dinner, and conduct business; and hold your own in a conversation. Includes step-by-step lessons in vocabulary, grammar, and conversation.
Author: Nikolaj Aleksandrovič BerdjajevVodka Politics
Author: Mark Lawrence SchradPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199389470
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 514
Book Description
Russia is famous for its vodka, and its culture of extreme intoxication. But just as vodka is central to the lives of many Russians, it is also central to understanding Russian history and politics. In Vodka Politics, Mark Lawrence Schrad argues that debilitating societal alcoholism is not hard-wired into Russians' genetic code, but rather their autocratic political system, which has long wielded vodka as a tool of statecraft. Through a series of historical investigations stretching from Ivan the Terrible through Vladimir Putin, Vodka Politics presents the secret history of the Russian state itself-a history that is drenched in liquor. Scrutinizing (rather than dismissing) the role of alcohol in Russian politics yields a more nuanced understanding of Russian history itself: from palace intrigues under the tsars to the drunken antics of Soviet and post-Soviet leadership, vodka is there in abundance. Beyond vivid anecdotes, Schrad scours original documents and archival evidence to answer provocative historical questions. How have Russia's rulers used alcohol to solidify their autocratic rule? What role did alcohol play in tsarist coups? Was Nicholas II's ill-fated prohibition a catalyst for the Bolshevik Revolution? Could the Soviet Union have become a world power without liquor? How did vodka politics contribute to the collapse of both communism and public health in the 1990s? How can the Kremlin overcome vodka's hurdles to produce greater social well-being, prosperity, and democracy into the future? Viewing Russian history through the bottom of the vodka bottle helps us to understand why the "liquor question" remains important to Russian high politics even today-almost a century after the issue had been put to bed in most every other modern state. Indeed, recognizing and confronting vodka's devastating political legacies may be the greatest political challenge for this generation of Russia's leadership, as well as the next.
