Russian, Book 1: Russian Through Propaganda

By Mark R. Pettus

This is the third edition of the first volume of the Russian Through Propaganda series, now with free video lessons via YouTube. This series of in-depth, college-level Russian textbooks provides a rigorous but rewarding approach to the language -- one intended both for ambitious beginners and for more advanced students seeking a highly structured review of the language. It assumes no prior knowledge of Russian, beginning with the alphabet and handwriting, and eventually covering the intermediate to advanced grammar and word-building knowledge you'll need to begin reading Russian literature in the original, both in the textbooks themselves and in dual-language readers available in the accompanying "Reading Russian" series, which features such authors as Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Pushkin, Gogol, and Chekhov. This initial volume is richly illustrated with Soviet-era propaganda posters, whose slogans serve as examples of each lesson's grammar -- meaning that from Day One, you'll be encountering real, historically significant Russian, and gaining cultural fluency as you master the nuts and bolts of the language. Each volume is structured as a series of 50 daily lessons, which build upon one another and give a clear sense of progress; each volume is the equivalent of a semester of intensive college-level study of Russian. For more information and resources, visit www.russianthroughpropaganda.com. The present volume -- Book 1 -- covers the alphabet, pronunciation, and handwriting, before introducing all singular case forms of nouns and adjectives, an in-depth introduction to verbal aspect and tense, and exhaustive coverage of a very challenging topic -- Russian verbs of motion. The series continues with Book 2 of "Russian Through Propaganda," and then with Books 3 and 4, entitled "Russian Through Poems and Paintings," which turn their attention from the Soviet era to the era of the Russian Empire, and to such classical authors as Pushkin, Lermontov, Chekhov, and many more.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0BMZP8Y63
• ISBN13: 9798365933217
• Release Date: November 2022
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 309 Pages
• Weight: 1.96 lbs.
• Dimensions: 11.0" x 0.7" x 8.5"