Krueger John Richard. Chuvash manual. Introduction, grammar, reader and vocabulary

Bloomington: Indiana University; The Hague: Mouton & Co., 1961. — 271 p. — (Uralic and Altaic series 7).The first part of the present work has as its purpose to give a brief survey of the history, customs and more important facets of the Chuvash economic and political system. There are many problems in securing data on conditions of life and operation of many sectors of the economy in the Chuvash ASSR, since no non-Soviet nationals have, to my knowledge, visited there for many years. Further, the many books devoted to the USSR, Soviet and otherwise, do not generally give any special discussion of Chuvashia, but merely treat it as part of the over-all economic picture. Thus, I conclude that life in the Chuvash ASSR cannot differ substantially from life in other parts of the USSR, or RSFSR, and consequently, that which holds true for the region as a whole regarding many features must likewise hold true for the smaller Chuvash Republic as well.
The second part, Grammar, is intended as a practical introduction to the written Chuvash language for persons not necessarily specialists, who wish to acquire a reading knowledge of contemporary printed materials. The accompanying Reader contains texts of this sort, as well as of folktales and poems, since both sorts of text represent the same language in form and structure.