Foreign Russian Studies: textbook / ed. by A. B. Bezborodov. – Moscow: Prospect, 2015. – 576 p. – ISBN 978-5- 392-16298-7.
The review examines the content of the textbook published by the authors from Russian State Humanitarian University for such discipline as “Russian Studies”. It draws the reader’s attention to the value of book, which is the fi rst domestic publication to cover issues of history and theory of Russian studies. This book, according to reviewers, covers the questions of educational and methodological support for teaching the new educational program «Russian studies». In the review, the educational publication is analyzed from the point of view of didactics and methodology. The materials presented in it give an idea of the main stages in the development of Russian studies as Area Study discipline. Due to this book the readers have a general picture of understanding the expert and social function of modern «Russian studies» programs in European, American and Asian universities.