American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Front Matter Source: The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Autumn, 1959) Published by: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages Stable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/305010 . Accessed: 12/06/2014 13:13 Your use of the JSTOR archive indicates your acceptance of the Terms & Conditions of Use, available at . http://www.jstor.org/page/info/about/policies/terms.jsp . JSTOR is a not-for-profit service that helps scholars, researchers, and students discover, use, and build upon a wide range of content in a trusted digital archive. We use information technology and tools to increase productivity and facilitate new forms of scholarship. For more information about JSTOR, please contact [email protected]. . American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages is collaborating with JSTOR to digitize, preserve and extend access to The Slavic and East European Journal. http://www.jstor.org This content downloaded from 195.78.108.40 on Thu, 12 Jun 2014 13:13:47 PM All use subject to JSTOR Terms and Conditions
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American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages
Front MatterSource: The Slavic and East European Journal, Vol. 3, No. 3 (Autumn, 1959)Published by: American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European LanguagesStable URL: http://www.jstor.org/stable/305010 .
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New England Chapter President: Valerie Tumins, Brown Univ. Secretary-Treasurer: Joachim Baer, Harvard Univ.
New York-New Jersey Regional Chapter President: Albert Parry, Colgate Univ. Vice Presidents: S. J. Sluszka, Fordham Univ.
Ludmilla B. Turkevich, Princeton Univ. and Douglass Coll.
Catherine Wolkonsky, Vassar Coll. Olga K. Woronoff, Manhattanville Coll.
Secretary-Treasurer: Olga S. Fedoroff, USAFIT, Syracuse Univ.
North Dakota Chapter President: Norman Balfour Levin, Univ. of North Dakota Vice President: Nicholas Kohanowski, Univ. of North Dakota Secretary-Treasurer: Sister Dolores Berry, St. Mary's School,
Charles Morley, ed. and tr., Portrait of America: Letters of Henry Sienkiewicz...... .Waclaw Lednicki 288
George Y. Shevelov and Fred Hollings, eds., A Reader in the History of the Eastern Slavic Languages: Rus- sian, Belorussian, Ukrainian .... Gerta Hiittl Worth 291
H. H. Bielfeldt, ed., Riickltiufiges W6rterbuch der russischen Sprache der Gegenwart ..................... Gerta Hiittl Worth 293
V. Tschebotarioff-Bill, ed., The Russian People: A Reader on Their History and Culture .............................Marthe Blinoff 294
John Turkevich and Ludmilla B. Turkevich, Russian for the Scientist ................... Thomas F. Magner 296
Jules Koslow, The Kremlin: Eight Centuries of Tyranny and Terror ..........................S. Pushkarev 298
Alfred G. Meyer, Leninism .......... Robert C. Tucker 299
Ralph T. Fisher, Jr., Pattern for Soviet Youth: A Study of the Congresses of the Komsomol, 1918-1954, ................. Frederick C. Barghoorn 300
Roman Gul', Skif v Evrope: Bakunin i Nikolaj I....................... Eugene Pyziur 302
Mikhail Zetlin, The Decembrists, tr. George Panin, Preface Michael M. Karpovich ........... M. Raeff 303
John A. Armstrong, The Soviet Bureaucratic Elite: A Case Study of the Ukrainian Apparatus. ....................... Joseph S. Roucek 304
Le Livre de la genbse du peuple Ukrainien, tr. Georges Luciani ............... J. B. Rudny6kyj 305
Paul E. Zinner, ed., National Communism and Popular Revolt in Eastern Europe; and [Marshall Andrews, ed.] Anatomy of Revolution ........... A.. A. J. Molnar 306
Clifford R. Barnett et al., Poland: Its People, Its Society, Its Culture ...... Mieczyslaw Giergielewicz 308
Books Received ..................................... 309
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J. T. Shaw Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Associate Editors
Edward Stankiewicz Walter Vickery
Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Review Editor
F. J. Oinas Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana
Editorial Committee
Victor Erlich J. B. Rudny6kyj Zbigniew Folejewski Anthony Salys William E. Harkins Thomas A. Sebeok The Rev. Walter C. Jaskievicz, S.J. Gleb Struve Claude P. Lemieux Nicholas Vakar Horace Lunt Ren6 Wellek Oleg A. Maslenikov
Business Manager
Edmund Ordon Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan
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Published by the AMERICAN ASSOCIATION OF TEACHERS OF SLAVIC
AND EAST EUROPEAN LANGUAGES
The Slavic and East European Journal, a jour- nal devoted to research and pedagogy, is the offi- cial publication of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages, AATSEEL of the U.S., Inc., an affiliate of AATSEEL of Canada. This publication is the successor to The AATSEEL Journal and The AATSEEL Bulletin. The Journal is published quarterly through the fa- cilities of Indiana University.
Subscription to The Slavic and East European Journal is $5.00 per year for individuals, libraries, and institutions. The subscription includes mem- bership in the AATSEEL. A special rate of $2.00 per year has been set for undergraduate and grad- uate students. Single copies may be purchased for $1.50.
Applications for membership, subscriptions to the Journal, and all other business letters should be sent to the Executive Secretary and Treasurer: Edmund Ordon, Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan.
Communications to the Editor, books for re- view, manuscripts, exchange journals, and copy for advertisements should be sent to J. T. Shaw, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana.
The printed order of articles does not imply relative merit. Opinions expressed are not neces- sarily those of the editorial staff.
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THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE A Reader on Their History and Culture
BY VALENTINE TSCHEBOTARIOFF BILL
The student discovers nothing natural or useful in language study, until he achieves a deep acquaintance with the history, culture, customs, and literature that give the words and grammar reality. THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, A Reader on Their History and Culture, provides just that taste of the Russian language's reality that will stimulate the student to unaided scholarly work, through the most vibrant prose of the best Russian historians.
THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE is intended as a text for second or third year students. The text is accented throughout. Professor Bill, lecturer in Russian at Princeton, uses it in her second semester second year course. Most books in the second and third year category neither tempt the student to anticipate scholarly work of his own, nor do they make his interim period of learning enjoyable. Interest is one of the main advantages of THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE as a text.
Professor Bill has gone to great effort to select lucid, simple, forceful prose from the writings of such famed Russian historians as Belinsky, Berdiaev, Grabar, Kliuchevsky, Ovsianko-Kulikovsky, Platonov, and Karpovich. The historical sequence begins with Kiev Russia, 9th to 12th centuries, and arrives step by step to what the author calls the tragic, but inevitable, phase of Soviet life.
Here, in THE RUSSIAN PEOPLE, is good scholarship at last for the advanced student, presented with a colorful and adventurous flair, plus fine writing as a bonus to say the least. So the student is offered early a chance to develop taste and 'feel' for the art of the Russian language.
The author contributes only two chapters of her own, where no other material was available, one on the Russian bourgeoisie, reduced from her forthcoming book, The Forgotten Class, and another on Soviet Culture. Between chapters she adds a few sentences to bridge gaps and insure continuity.
Professor Bill has been lecturer in Russian at Princeton University since 1946. She received her Ph.D., magna cum laude, from the University of Berlin. She has been a correspondent on Russian affairs for the German magazine Der Deutsche Volkswirt, and a research assistant at the Institute for Advanced Study. She also taught a graduate course in the social and cultural history of Russia at New York University. She is the author of The Forgotten Class, and has published many articles on Russian history and culture in The Russian Review.
144 pages, maps $4.00
Through your local bookseller The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 37 In Canada: The University of Toronto Press, Toronto, Ontario
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Within the framework of the material given in this book the student acquires (a) a basic vocabulary related to his immediate needs and interests, (b) an understanding of the basic grammar structure of the language, (c) a founda- tion and a frame of reference for his future studies.
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