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In Russia Serfs were predominantly local poor people - not imported from foreign nations - the system was of indentured servitude - whereby a serf would work on land for his or her entire life in exchange for the right to live in a house on the owner's property and in exchange for basic food, clothing etc. Serfs were treated like property and could only marry, move, have kids etc with the approval of their owners. Corporal punishment was used to keep them in line if they dissobeyed landowners, and because they were considered as property, they had virtually no rights pre-1861.

Serfs were an integral part of country life like slaves on plantations in the US. They would raise the children (along w/ foreign language professors for richer families - usually young girls from France) The "nanny" who was often an old serf woman who is no longer suited for work in the fields plays a central role in much Russian pre-20th century litterature. She is a key figure in Pushkin's works (ex: "Eugene Onegin") and is present in "War and Peace" "The Brothers Karamazov" as well as numerous other works. After the Emancipation of the Cerfs in 1861 - see wiki article - Serfs gained many rights de jure, but de facto because they still had debts to their masters and had few ways of getting out of indetured servitude, continued to function along the same lines, up until the 1917 revolution.

Bottom line : if you want to know about how serfs were treated look to Russian litterature from the 1700 + 1800s - Pushkin, Gogol (Ukraine), Dostoevsky, Turgenev, Tolstoy etc - there are also films that were made based on their works but no specific Cerf film / cultural movement that is comparable to the one in the US with Slaves / African-Americans.

The only explanation I can think of is that in Russia it was about money and bloodlines - not about difference of ethnicity and culture.

Nannies - numerous Russian sources and a [book on Amazon :] (http://www.amazon.com/books/dp/0985569816)

VERY interesting book that I will now be enticed to order : comparing African-American and Russian slaves/cerfs plight from a cultural heritage perspective :

I listened to the whole thing. Doctor Lesiv was very impressive. It was an interesting situation of scholar venturing into the territory controlled by pseudo-scholarship. I wonder how many Red Ice radio shows she listened to before she did this interview. The most interesting exchange was when Lesiv said the Ukrainian pagan leaders find it very curious when American or British pagans speak of equality and diversity and inclusiveness as values. Then the host jumps in with something like "yeah how stupid can those American and British pagans be?" and the guest was taken aback for about five seconds but then she regained her balance and the host did not say anything else to disturb her guest's flow for the remainder of the interview.

I learned about this guy: Taras Shevchenko.

Also this compilation was mentioned which looks interesting but I will have to look for it in a library: Modern Pagan and Native Faith Movements in Central and Eastern Europe.

> I love sci-fi/fantasy

So you'll probably also love "S.N.U.F.F."

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No single letter in Russian alphabet has single sound correspondence and most sounds correspond to more than one letter.

Typical sounds corresponding to letters are described here. Phonemes are way more tricky since there are no dictionaries with adequate descriptions of Russian morphemics and real pronunciations.

Here is a tool which gives you rough transcriptions in IPA, but it is far from ideal. The most adequate book in English which describes Russian pronunciation is Jones and Ward.

This particular book is new and only available in Russian, I think. I'd recommend one of his previous books which should seem very prophetic now, SNUFF. It was written before all the unpleasantness between Ukraine and Russia but talks about sort-of fantasy world order in a very similar way. There's a nice preview there.

BTW, the ebook versions are all free on Amazon.

I'm working on a book right now called Petersburg by Andrei Bely. It looks to be a very strange book, if you like books like that.

> [–]Xilar 4 очка 6 часов назад
I think he is talking about voicedness, as in the difference between v and f or p and b or t and d. Voiceless sounds are still audible.

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Xilar Might be right here.

I am using this book--

https://www.amazon.com/Phonetics-Russian-Daniel-Jones/dp/052115300X

which is excellent--but for every letter that I used to think didn't come in voiced and unvoiced pairs eg., Л/Р they mention that there is an unvoiced allophone, and even go to some length giving suggestions on how to pronounce it.

I've come to the conclusion that they just mean it is less voiced when it follows an unvoiced letter.

For example—

бинокль/ мысль are said to be soft and un(less)-voiced.

So I came across this article about the poetry of Arseny Tarkovsky, Andrei's father.

There's a link at the end to a listing of the book of poetry on http://www.csupoetrycenter.com.

http://www.csupoetrycenter.com/books/i-burned-at-the-feast-selected-poems-of-arseny-tarkovsky

Here's the link for the book on Amazon

http://www.amazon.com/Burned-Feast-Selected-Arseny-Tarkovsky/dp/0996316701

https://www.amazon.com/Island-Crimea-Vassily-Aksyonov/dp/0394524314

Чехов считается одним из лучших писателей рассказов в русской литературе. И, что плюс, его можно взять в двуязычном издании. Еще двуязычный сборник. И еще

Well what I can find doesn't cite Nietzsche directly, so maybe I'm mistaken - or more likely overselling a difference that's not quite a "break" - and just accepted it given my understanding of their respective views, but it did cite this book:

Nietzsche and Dostoevsky: Philosophy, Morality, Tragedy (Studies in Russian Literature and Theory)
https://www.amazon.com/dp/0810133946/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_U_ijd8CbDWG1KS33

So at least something to check out with respect to their relationship in general.