Russian 2210 (Structure of Russian for Language Teachers)
Russian 1400 (Advanced Russian Morphology)

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Last modified: 2010-01-11
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Russian language textbooks

Prepared by David J. Birnbaum and Gerald McCausland. This list contains only textbooks currently in print and used broadly in university teaching. The University library doesn’t have many of these textbooks, but students in the Structure/Morphology course may examine copies in Jerry’s office (inside 1401 CL) after January 18.

Beginning (First-year)

• Lekic, Maria D., Dan E. Davidson, and Kira S Gor. Russian stage 1: Live from Russia. 2nd ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2008.
• Lubensky, Sophia, Gerard Ervin, Larry McLellan, and Donald Jarvis. Nachalo. 2nd ed. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2002.
• Robin, Richard M., Karen Evans-Romaine, Galina Shatalina and Joanna M. Robin. Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian. 4th ed. Volume 1. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2007.

Intermediate (Second-year)

• Davis, Patricia Anne and Donald Vincent Oprendek. Making Progress in Russian: A Second Year Course. 2nd ed. revised by Arna Bronstein and Aleksandra Fleszar. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1997.
• Martin, Cynthia and Andrei Zaitsev. Russian stage 2: Welcome back! 3rd ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2009. (No copy in the Slavic Department.)
• Robin, Richard M., Karen Evans-Romaine, Galina Shatalina and Joanna M. Robin. Golosa: A Basic Course in Russian. Volume 2. 4th ed. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.: Prentice Hall, 2007.
• Simes, Natasha and Richard M. Robin. Political Russian: An Intermediate Course in Russian Language for International Relations, National Security and Socio-Economics. 6th ed. Dubuque, IA: Kendall Hunt, 2009. (Jerry has only the 5th ed.)

Upper intermediate

• Kagan, Olga, Frank Miller, and Ganna Kudyma. В пути: Russian Grammar in Context. 2nd ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson Education, 2006.
• Rifkin, Benjamin. Грамматика в контексте: Russian Grammar in Literary Contexts. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 1996.

Advanced

• Rosengrant, Sandra Freels. Russian in Use: An Interactive Approach to Advanced Communicative Competence. New Haven: Yale UP, 2007.
• Rosengrant, Sandra F. and Elena D. Lifschitz. Focus on Russian: An Interactive Approach to Communication. 2nd ed. New York: Wiley & Sons, 1996.

Heritage

• Kagan, Olga, Tatiana Akishina, and Richard Robin. Russian for Russians. Bloomington: Slavica, 2002.