This is the third edition of the first volume of the Russian Through Propaganda series, now with free video lessons via YouTube. This new series of Russian textbooks provides a rigorous but rewarding approach to the language. It assumes no prior knowledge of Russian, and is intended for ambitious beginners - or for more advanced students seeking a highly structured review of the language. It assumes that its readers are interested in long-term mastery of the language, within the rich historical, cultural, and literary contexts that often draw students to Russian in the first place. It therefore takes the time to explain challenging grammar topics in depth, striving to provide the full picture as clearly as possible. It is richly illustrated with Soviet-era propaganda posters, whose slogans serve as examples of each lesson's grammar. It is structured as a series of 50 daily lessons, which build upon one another and give a clear sense of progress. It is the equivalent of a semester of intensive college-level study of Russian. Visit www.russianthroughpropaganda.com for more information and to access video lessons.

The series continues with Book 2 of "Russian Through Propaganda," and then with Books 3 and 4, entitled "Russian Through Poems and Paintings." Students who complete this course can expect to begin reading Russian classics in the original - including in the "Reading Russian" series of parallel-text Russian readers, which feature such authors as Dostoevsky, Pushkin, Gogol, Tolstoy, and Chekhov.