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Learn Russian

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Paperback | 1 July 2000 | Edition Number 1

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Aiming to provide an all-round and accessible description of the language, this book gives a presentation of grammar as an intellectual exercise and lots of drills and exercises which are intended to be stimulating and interesting. The best of the language, namely extracts from works of many of its inimitable writers, is used among much else- Pushkin, Gogol', Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Bulgakov, Mandel'shtam, not to forgoet Kharms. The overriding aim is to set everything in an entertaining, real, and enlightening historical, cultural and social context - to give learners what they actually want to know about Russian (but are usually afriad to admit to). It also sets out to describe everything in such a way that the dread moment in so many books when everything becomes incomprehensible simply doesn't happen here. Learn Russian will not teach you how to buy an ice-cream or ask direction to the Kremlin but it will give anyone the opportunity to read some of Russia's greatest literature in the original along with learning something of the historical, cultural and social context.

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Foreword
Introduction
The Alphabet	p. 1
Spelling	p. 10
Scandinavians, Slavs, and ...	p. 22
From Kiev to Muscovy	p. 35
Revision: A Welcome Breather	p. 44
The Arrival of the West	p. 50
Almost a Dead Poets' Society	p. 60
First Orders, not to mention Last	p. 73
Yet more verb patterns	p. 88
Revision	p. 97
The century marches on	p. 106
Dostoevsky	p. 118
Tolstoy	p. 130
Chekhov	p. 138
Revision: [actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 150
Poetry of the Silver Age	p. 157
And it's not all poetry	p. 167
Bulgakov	p. 176
Venedikt Erofeev	p. 184
Revision: [actual symbol not reproducible]	p. 191
References Section	p. 197
Index	p. 209
End-Piece	p. 211
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