Cultures and languages of the peoples of Russia, NIS and the Baltic

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Leont`ev, A.A

Kultury i Iazyki Narodov Rossii, Stran SNG i Baltii

Uchebno-Spravochnoe Posobie

[ Cultures and languages of the peoples of Russia, NIS and the Baltic : Handbook]

Moscow: Moskovskii Psikhologo-Sotsial`nyi Institut-Flintaill, 1998
311 p
pbk. 13 x 20 cm
ISBN: 589502033X
Language: Russian

Aleksei Leont`ev (b. 1936) is an outstanding Russian philologist, psychologist, and linguist, the author of many books translated into 22 languages. This book is a teaching aid and handbook on the history of peoples and their languages of the Russian Federation and its neighbors, the New Independent States. The first chapter introduces the main concepts: ethnos, races, classification of world languages, their literatures, cultures, and religions. Chapter 2 is about languages of the FSU in general. The third chapter describes specific ethnocultural zones in the territory. The final chapter is a handbook which has a short description of the languages and cultures of about 170 ethnoses.

Subjects

» Government and Politics » International Relations and Geopolitical Studies » Integration in the post-soviet space

» Ethnic Issues and Nationalities » Peoples of the Russian Federation

» Language, Dictionaries and Linguistics » Philology, Etymology and History of Language

» Social Sciences » Theory and History of Culture, Esthetics

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