Advanced Russian Through History

by Benjamin Rifkin, Olga Kagan and Anna Yatsenko

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264 Pages, 8.00 x 10.00 x 0.50 in, 5 maps, 8 photos

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9780300109474
Published: Monday, 15 Jan 2007

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Advanced Russian Through History is a Russian reader for students working towards advanced and superior level proficiency in Russian. The book consists of thirty-six chapters focusing on the history of Russia, from Kievan Rus' to the post-Soviet era. Each chapter is accompanied by a corresponding minilecture and related learning tasks on the Web. The learning tasks are designed to promote students' abilities to understand and produce argument in the style of scholarly discourse, both in speech and in writing.

Benjamin Rifkin is professor of Russian and dean of humanities and social sciences at The College of New Jersey.

Olga Kagan is Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures and Director of the UCLA Center for World Languages as well as the National Heritage Language Resource Center at the University of California at Los Angeles.

Anna Alsufieva (formerly Yatsenko) is Assistant Professor of Russian at Portland State University.

"The textbook and recorded lectures provide users with substantial, comprehensible input that can function as learners' introduction to educated Russian prose. . . . This textbook would be a fine resource for advanced-level, content-based courses that target both increased language learning and deeper cultural knowledge."—Kelly Knickmeier Cummings, Slavic and East European Journal

Table of Contents (PDF)

Preface to Teachers (PDF)

Preface to Students (PDF)

About the Learning Tasks (PDF)

Maps (PDF)

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