The collapse of the Soviet Union and its totalitarian system has resulted in instability and conflict among its many ethnic groups. In this volume, a distinguished group of scholars from the Russian C
In 1874 an expedition set out overland from Saint Petersburg, to travel through China. Their route took them to the important cities of Peking and Shanghai as well as to unexplored interior regions, a
The second volume of Corpus of Soqotri Oral Literature comprises 30 newly published texts in the Modern South Arabian language Soqotri (island of Soqotra, Gulf of Aden, Yemen). The richly annotated te