Study Abroad in Russia

Here is a pdf version of the slideshow with links to Study Abroad programs and scholarships.

Dr. (Maggie) Harrison’s lecture on Russian Diaspora

Click here to view Dr. Harrison’s slideshow in a pdf file: RUSSIAN DIASPORA

RUSS Translation and Analysis project

The term project for RUSS students is now available. Click on the “RUSS 4362 Term Assignment” tab above.

Dr. Williford’s slideshow

Russian Revolutions and Marxism in Russia

What happened to those Soviet statues and monuments?

Check out this link to friend and colleague Joseph Liro’s post on the fate of some of the monumental art of Soviet Russia.

Spring Semester, 2013

“Russia Today” is an inter-disciplinary class—drawing primary instructors from the Departments of Political Science and Modern Languages—which depicts and prepares students to analyze the monumental changes that have and are taking place in the geopolitical space of the former Soviet Union (U.S.S.R.). This course includes an overview of the region’s geography, history, political development, Russian language and literature, and various facets of life in Russia and the former U.S.S.R. including societal institutions and changes, economic forces, and political futures for this strategically important area.

The course syllabus is online here, in .pdf form here.

A brief history of modern Russia

“Russia emerged from a decade of post-Soviet economic and political turmoil to reassert itself as a world power…”

Click here to view this BBC News Russia country profile.

Русский алфавит

Click here to view the Russian Cyrillic Alphabet.

Click here to learn the Russian Cyrillic letters and their sounds (page 1).

Click here to learn the Russian Cyrillic letters and their sounds (page 2).

Click here to practice reading and pronouncing the Russian Cyrillic Alphabet.

Click here for reading and cursive writing practice.

Here are some more links and language tools:

Online Russian keyboard

Practice the alphabet and learn basic vocabulary

Multitran online Russian dictionary

Study Russian online

Another versatile learning tool