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An interactive online learning environment for students of Russian

The online learning and testing system for upper-intermediate and advanced learners of Russian (B2–C1 level according to the Common European Framework of Reference for Languages) provides students with essential support in the acquisition of new language competencies and skills and in mastering the existing ones. The project is the first stage in the development of a comprehensive online training course in Russian grammar. The scope of this project stage is acute learning problems in one area of the Russian grammar, namely, the syntax of the simple sentence.

Russian and Slavonic

The Slavonic Research Seminar runs most weeks during term, and brings together researchers from the Sub-Faculty of Slavonic Languages and Literatures, and the broader Slavonic studies community from across the University (including colleagues from History

Books

Cover of book 'Gulag Fiction' showing a guard in a prison corridor
Gulag Fiction.

This unique exploration of Russian prose fiction about the Soviet labour camp system from the 1920s to the 2020s compares representations of identity, ethics and memory across the corpus.

Curtis Bulgakov
Mikhail Bulgakov

Mikhail Bulgakov (1891–1940) has become the most popular Russian writer of the twentieth century, even though his works were banned for decades after his death, owing to the repressive censorship in the Stalin era and beyond.

Maguire Spectres
Red Spectres

A collection of eleven Gothic-fantastic Russian short stories from the early twentieth century, including previously untranslated tales by Mikhail Bulgakov and Sigizmund Krzhizhanovsky...

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