This book pulls together experts in the fields of economics and Russian culture, all participants in the Samuel P. Huntington Memorial Symposium on Culture, Cultural Change and Economic Development, a follow-up to the 1999 Cultural Values and Human Progress Symposium at Harvard University. As the sequel to the 2001 volume Culture Matters, it discusses modernization, democratization, economic, and political reforms in Russia and asserts that these reforms can happen through the reframing of cultural values, attitudes, and institutions. (Cover design by Katie Makrie.)

Entertaining way to learn and practice Russian conversation! RUSSIAN EVERYWHERE contains 100 everyday dialogues supported by illustrations with some funny plots. Our mission is to make Russian language easy and fun to learn. We augment all our dialogues with illustrations, which help you to memorize them better. The pictures might also give you some insight into the Russian way of thinking and - maybe - make you smile. Anyone studying languages figures out quickly that most common sayings are not translated word-for-word, and this book lets you see how you need to say things in Russian to get your point across. The book introduces phrases on various topics such as Greeting, Getting acquainted, Small talk, Plans, Invitations, Ordering drinks, Congratulations, Compliments, Apologies, Gratitude, Saying Goodbye. RUSSIAN EVERYWHERE is great both for beginners or anyone who wants to brush up and sound like a native! Start speaking Russian Now!

Entertaining way to learn and practice Russian conversation!RUSSIAN EVERYWHERE contains 100 everyday dialogues supported by illustrations with some funny plots. Our mission is to make Russian language easy and fun to learn. We augment all our dialogues with illustrations, which help you to memorize them better. The pictures might also give you some insight into the Russian way of thinking and - maybe - make you smile.Anyone studying languages figures out quickly that most common sayings are not translated word-for-word, and this book lets you see how you need to say things in Russian to get your point across.The book introduces phrases on various topics such as Greeting, Getting acquainted, Small talk, Plans, Invitations, Ordering drinks, Congratulations, Compliments, Apologies, Gratitude, Saying Goodbye. RUSSIAN EVERYWHERE is great both for beginners or anyone who wants to brush up and sound like a native! Start speaking Russian Now!

In the wake of the USSR's collapse, more than 25 million Russians found themselves living outside Russian territory, their status ambiguous. This volume, prepared under the sponsorship of the Kennan Institute, offers a comprehensive and amply documented examination of the issue.

Now in paperback, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire was acclaimed by The Hartford Courant as "a thrilling discovery ... a reversal of the letters [of] Saul Bellow's Herzog ... [with] a Nabokovian delight in words and texts." J. is a smuggler living in Russia, making his living fencing the flotsam of communism's collapse. In Istanbul he takes a commission to trap an endangered Russian butterfly and decides to use it as an opportunity to smuggle V., his Russian lover who has no papers, back into her homeland. In the port of Odessa, she disappears, and J. continues alone to a small village on the Black Sea. Letters from V. begin to arrive, and as J. hunts the butterfly, he seeks a way to lure V. back into his life. Equal parts bittersweet love story, international intrigue, and one man's quest to write the perfect love letter, Nocturnal Butterflies of the Russian Empire, wrote The Tennessean, is "an amazing jewel of a story ... that winks with wit [and] wears its astonishing craftsmanship lightly." "An aesthetically blissful reading experience ... Nabokov's spirit, alive and kind, has touched [Prieto] with its butterfly wings." -- Aleksandar Hemon, The Village Voice Literary Supplement "...Nocturnal Butterflies is an impressive performance by a writer whose gifts are clearly abundant." -- Richard Bernstein, The New York Times "A beautiful, lavish, seedy, poetic, and magical book.... Pure pleasure for the literary mind." -- Chris Kridler, The Baltimore Sun