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John Murray and Sarah Smyth. Basic Russian: A Grammar and Workbook. Routledge Grammars. London and New York: Routledge, 1999. xi, 244 pp. $65.00, cloth. $21.99, paper.

Basic Russian: a Grammar and Workbook by John Murray and Sarah Smith, both of Dublin's Trinity College, begins by making clear exactly what it is and is not intended to do. It represents itself not as a "course book" per se, but rather as an additional resource, intended for a learner already familiar with the Cyrillic alphabet, one who commands a core vocabulary of at least 500 lexemes. It eschews the status of a primary introductory text, claiming …