Genevra Gerhart maintains her own web site supporting The Russian's World at http://www.genevragerhart.com.

The Russian's World is a classic in our field. In 1993 the AATSEEL Publications Committee presented its first "Special Achievement Award" to the second edition of this seminal work, stating: "The Russian's WOrld is a unique achievement, which presents carefully selected portions of the Russian lexicon within a broad cultural context. It explains aspects of Russian culture and of Russian life (in short, "the Russian's world") in a lively and engaging manner, and contains information that is of value to students on all levels, from those just past the beginner stage to the most advanced, and teh every interest, be it nineteenth-century literature or contemporary society. For Genevra Gerhart this was indeed a labor of love, a work, now in its second edition, compiled over many years without the institutional or government support that usually assists projects of this scope. In recognition of both her dedication and her accomplishment, AATSEEL's Publication Committee is pleased to present her with its Special Achievement Award."
Slavica is proud to restore this book to print for the third millenium. The new edition is essentially a reprint of the 2nd edition from Harcourt, with corrections and a few additions to the text. The new price is $34.95 (a $15 reduction from the price of the previous edition).

Contents

Preface

Acknowledgments

1. Conduct (Both naughty and nice)

2. The Human Being (A physical description)

3. Names (What they are and how they're used)

4. Clothing (Contemporary and traditional)

5. Housing (What it looks like, names for things, the peasant hut)

6. Food (from raw materials through cooking to dessert)

7. Medicine (Orthodox and unorthodox)

8. Work and Money (A differing view of getting theirs)

9. Shopping (A different way of getting things, and fixing them)

10. Communications (Forms letters can take, ordering a telephone call)

11. Transportation (Forms and processes of travel)

12. Education (Why their B.A. is equivalent to our M.A.)

13. Speech (Pig Latin, old orthography, expletives)

14. Nature (Climate, the land, and plants + animals)

15. Numbers (Two plus two is four, the abacus, how to read equations)

16. Holidays and the Church (What Church is like and how to act)

Appendices: Business Suggestions, Table of Ranks, Chemical Formulas, Morse Code, Braille Alphabet, Index of Birds, References, Maps.