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COPYRIGHT 2001 Modern Humanities Research Association
Learn Russian. By IAN PRESS. London: Duckworth. 2000. x + 214 pp. 9.99 [pounds sterling].
'Russian, like Russia, is not for sissies.' The opening sentence of Peter Jones's Forward to Learn Russian is entirely appropriate. This is a not a textbook for sissies or indeed for the average first-year undergraduate, and certainly not for those who want just to gain some superficial knowledge adequate for the passing of first-year exams. It is a book for the very intelligent budding Russophile: either someone who already knows some Russian but wants to dig deeper, or a...
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