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The textbook “The Cultural History of Rossiya (Russia)” addressed to foreign students of the level A2–B2 is a brief discussion of the Russian cultural, scientific, artistic contributions to the universal culture of our civilization. The authors used the concept approach when selecting the materials for this textbook. They chose the facts, the names, the cultural events that had a defining role in forming the image of modern Rossiya (Russia). The textbook gives a retrospective coverage of the topics related to the main course of development of Russian cultural history: Slavic pagan history, the role of Christianity in the genesis of the Russian literary language and Russian classical literature; development of trades and crafts, urban development, creation of original artistic schools. The book is discussing the role of Russian literature, theater, cinematography, visual arts, music, science, philosophy and humanities in the world culture. A separate chapter is dedicated to geography and ethnography of modern Rossiya (Russia). The authors emphasized those Russian facts, persons, scientific and artistic schools that are widely known in the world. The provided translation into Czech language of difficult words and the key accent marks would facilitate for students the reading of the original Russian text. The textbook provides questions and assignments for classes and homework. Sample paper topics are proposed for students at the end of each chapter. The textbook is supplied with a Name Index, Subject Index, References, and Recommended Reading. There is an expanded electronic version of the textbook including additional color illustrations and music pieces. The electronic version includes expanded assignments which enhances the methodological content. The textbook can be addressed to university, college and high school students, teachers, persons doing research in culture and ethnography, experts in cross-cultural communication and to all those interested in Slavic history and Russian culture. The authors put in a conscientious effort and did their best to produce an interesting and useful reading.

Volume 12 of the Archive opens with a study by Yefim Melamed (Kyiv) about the history of Stalin's security services overseeing Jewish writers in the late 1930s and early 1950s resulted in repressions and the killing of many of them. The appendix to his article presents a unique material: the reports of a secret agent who reported on the activities of the'brothers in writing.'Grigory Kan (Moscow) contributes to the study of the interminable topic: the Jews and the Russian revolution. His research is dedicated to Aaron Zundelevich (1852–1923), a prominent figure in the narodnik's movement, a member of the Executive Committee of the “People's Will.”Roberta de Giorgi (Udine, Italy) focuses in her research on the history of translations and publicationa of Leo Tolstoy's Three Tales, the proceeds of which the author, at the request of Sholem Aleichem, donated to the Jews who suffered from the pogrom in Chisinau. The story turned out to be extremely confusing and fascinating and adds new touches to the biographies of L. N. Tolstoy and Sholem Aleichem, as well as to the history of literary life and publishing at the beginning of the 20th century.In her article, Maria Gulakova (St. Petersburg) publishes a letter from ethnographer and public figure Moses Krol (1862–1942) to Chaim Zhitlovsky. Information contained in a letter from Krol (then an émigré in Paris), dated March 26, 1936, sheds light on a little-known attempt to organize the resettlement of European Jews in the 1930s to Ecuador. Gulakova's research is based on materials collected from various archives in Moscow, Kyiv, New York, Jerusalem and Leeds.

Ця книжка розповідає про історію захоплення влади в Росії державною безпекою як інститутом і простежує всі етапи цього захоплення — від грудня 1917 року, коли було утворено ВЧК під керівництвом Фелікса Дзержинського, до сучасності, коли через каскад неконституційних маневрів влада в Росії опинилася в руках ФСБ, а крісло президента здобув колишній директор ФСБ Володимир Путін. Читач виявиться свідком смертельної і кривавої боротьби між держбезпекою та компартією, яка завершилася перемогою КГБ над КПРС у 1991 році й над усією країною — у 2000-му, коли президентом, навічно, став Путін.

'Junosti čestnoe zercalo'aus dem Jahr 1717 ist ein bemerkenswertes Buch, das hervorragend die Transformation des Moskauer Zarenreichs zum Russischen Imperium unter Zar Peter I. mit ihrer starken Orientierung an West- und Mitteleuropa widerspiegelt. Das sprachlich überaus heterogene Werk beinhaltet eine weitgehend traditionelle Fibel, welche jedoch in die noch junge'Zivilschrift'einführte, sowie zwei voneinander getrennte Kapitel mit Verhaltensregeln für junge Männer und Frauen. Das Buch eröffnet nicht zuletzt einen hervorragenden Einblick in die Frühphase der Herausbildung der modernen russischen Standardsprache.

В этой книге описывается подлинная документальная история 300-летней конкуренции и борьбы за господство между турками, армянами, англичанами и русскими за господство на Ближнем Востоке. Автор провел семь лет, исследуя, читая, анализируя тысячи документов, книг и статей от Средневековья до современной эпохи в британских, французских, американских и турецких архивах. На сегодняшний день история Ближнего Востока никогда не рассматривалась таким образом. Армянский вопрос, оставление англичанами армян, заговоры против России впервые раскрываются в этой книге. Есть так много вещей, которые вышли в первый раз, что вам лучше прочитать их самостоятельно...