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Start speaking Russian today! Now in an updated second edition,
Beginner's Russian with Interactive Online Workbook offers an
innovative, easy, and thorough way to speak, and read Russian
confidently. This complete Russian course includes a user-friendly
textbook and interactive online workbook. The carefully-paced,
relevant lessons cover grammar and language basics in the context
of everyday situations related to family, jobs, introductions,
dining out, the Internet, and much more. The chapters are designed
for the beginning student, and are full of photos, cartoons, games,
and exercises alongside easy-to-understand lessons. This new
edition includes updated vocabulary to reflect ongoing changes in
contemporary Russian culture and society, new speaking and writing
activities that allow students to interact with technology and
media, and new individual and group projects and oral presentations
to engage learners' creativity and help them develop communicative
competency. In addition to the book, you have access to an
interactive website full of videos, audio, and self-correcting
exercises. The enriching material on the website reinforces the
basics of the lessons in the book, helping you acquire Russian
skills in a natural, engaging way. Thorough explanations and
instructions offer a gradual introduction to the language, Cyrillic
alphabet, and grammar An interactive website features correct
pronunciation by native speakers and helps learners start speaking
Russian right away Ideal for individual self-study or classroom use
Each chapter will take 5-6 hours of classroom instruction, or
approximately 10-12 hours of study for the independent learner.
Students should be able to attain the ACTFL Novice High or
Intermediate Low levels of proficiency by the end of the course
After the First Congress of Soviet Writers in 1934, folklore, like
literature, became an instrument of the political propagandist.
Folklorists devoted considerable efforts to attending to what
purported to be a rebirth of the Russian epic tradition, producing
works of pseudofolklore that as often as not featured Joseph Stalin
in the hero's role. Miller's account of this curious episode in the
history of popular culture and totalitarian politics, and his
synopses and translations of "classic" examples of folklore for
Stalin, seek to serve as a resource not only for the study of
contemporary folklore but also for the political scientist.
Vsevolod Ivanov was praised in the 1920s as one of the most
original and promising young writers to emerge from the Russian
Revolution. Ivanov's personal experiences in Siberia and Central
Asia during the Revolution and Civil War, set against a childhood
and youth spent wandering through that vast expanse and nourishing
his imagination on such Romantic writers as Edgar Allan Poe and
Jules Verne, infuse his writing. Combining traditional elements
with the fantastic and the surreal, Ivanov's stories address not
only the themes of the Revolution - the dehumanizing effects of
famine; the ferment, energy, and uncertainty of the tempestuous
times - but also the quotidian: the quiet world of man and nature,
and the elemental bond that tied peasants to their native land.
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