Advanced Russian Through History Benjamin Rifkin, Olga Kagan, Anna Yatsenko

Advanced Russian Through History is a Russian reader for intermediate and advanced students of Russian and heritage learners of Russian. The book consists of 36 chapters focusing on the history of Russia, from Kievan Rus' to the post-Soviet era. Each chapter features a written text, a brief lecture on the accompanying CD-ROM, and web-based learning tasks designed to promote students' abilities to understand and produce argument in the style of scholarly discourse, both in speech and in writing.

Ben Rifkin is Professor of Russian and Vice Dean for Undergraduate Affairs, College of Liberal Arts, Temple University. Olga Kagan is Coordinator of the Russian Langugage Program and Director of the Center for World Languages at the University of California at Los Angeles. Anna Yatsenko is Visiting Assistant Professor of Russian at Reed College.