📚 Russian

The grammar books and the script reform: a literary language’s codification and its teaching abroad.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject russian language in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Sobranie sochinenii v dvadtsati dvukh tomakh	Лев Толстой	1882	89
	New complete Russian-English dictionary (new orthography)	Louis Segal	1942	34
	Moi universitety	Максим Горький	1923	23
	Golosa	Richard M. Robin	1993	20
	Colloquial Russian	Svetlana Le Fleming	1993	18
	Slovarʹ russkogo i͡a︡zyka	S. I. Ozhegov	1952	14
	Sputniki	Panova, Vera Fedorovna	1948	13
	Russko-angliĭskiĭ slovarʹ	A. I. Smirnit︠s︡kiĭ	1949	12
	First Thousand Words in Russian (First Thousand Words)	Heather Amery	1983	12
	Anglo-russkiĭ slovarʹ	V. K. Mi͡uller	1931	11
	Teach yourself Russian	Maximilian Fourman	1943	11
	Russkoe literaturnoe proiznoshenie	R. I. Avanesov	1950	11
	The Oxford Russian-English dictionary	Marcus Wheeler	1972	11
	Troika	Marita Nummikoski	1996	11
	Colloquial Russian	Mark Sieff	1943	9
	Russian syntax	Frank Marshall Borras	1959	9
	Beginner's Russian	Rachel Farmer	2002	9
	Russian for dummies	Andrew Kaufman	2006	9
	Practical Handbook on Stress in the Russian Language	V. Klepko	1960	8
	Russian grammar	Nevill Forbes	1914	7
	Russian verbs of motion	Leon Stilman	1950	7
	Russian word-formation	Charles Edward Townsend	1968	7
	Russian in 10 minutes a day	Kristine Kershul	1984	7
	Using Russian	Derek Offord	1996	7
	Bondar's simplified Russian method	D. Bondar	1918	6
	Kill or get killed	Rex Applegate	1956	6
	Introductory Russian grammar	Galina Stilman	1964	6
	Russian in exercises	S. A. Khavronina	1970	6
	Simplified Russian grammar	Mischa H. Fayer	1957	5
	The Penguin Russian course	John Lister Illingworth Fennell	1961	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 03 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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