title: Introduction to Russian-English Translation
author:  Natalia Strelkova 
description: &#34;Drawing on her considerable experience translating and teaching translation, Natalia Strelkova has produced an excellent, concise, and informative addition to the body of practical guides to translation from Russian to English.&#34; --Slavic and East European Journal (Vol. 57, 2013)
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  Copyright © 1964 by Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
  
  Foreword copyright © 2014 by Hari Kunzru
  
  Afterword copyright © 2014 by Boris Strugatsky
  
  English language translation copyright © 2014 by Chicago Review Press
  Incorporated
  
  All rights reserved
  
  Published by Chicago Review Press Incorporated
  
  814 North Franklin Street
  
  Chicago, IL 60610
  
  ISBN 978-1-61374-828-2
  
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  The publication was effected under the auspices of the Mikhail Prokhorov
  Foundation TRANSCRIPT Programme to Support Translations of Russian Literature.
  
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  Published with the support of the Institute for Literary Translation (Russia).
  
  Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
  
  Strugatskii, Arkadii, 1925–1991, author.
  
  > [Trudno byt’ bogom. English. 2014]
  
  Hard to be a god / Arkady and Boris Strugatsky ; translated by Olena
  Bormashenko.
  
  > pages ; cm
  
  > ISBN 978-1-61374-828-2
  
  I. Strugatskii, Boris, 1933–2012, author. II