Russian, Slavic, and Soviet Studies in the United States: Some memories and notes

Russian History

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 1997, Pages 441-456

  Harris, Chauncy D ^a  

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EID: 2442723241     PISSN: 0094288X     EISSN: 18763316     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1163/187633197X00221     Document Type: Note

References (10)

1. For a discussion of the early development of Soviet area studies in the United States, ed. Harold H. Fisher Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press United States, see Philip E. Mosely, "The Growth of Russian Studies," in American Research on Russia, ed. Harold H. Fisher (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1959), 1-22
2. and John N. Hazard, Recollections of a Pioneering Sovietologist (New York: Oceana Publications, 1984), especially chap. 2, Moscow Student Days, and chap. 8, The Russian Institute Years. For a summary of the study of Slavic languages and literatures, William B. Edgerton, The History of Slavistic Scholarship in the United States, in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Slawistik in nichtslawischen Ländern, ed. Josef Hamm and Günther Wytrzens [=Schriften der Balkankommission. Linguistische Abteilung, 30] (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1985), 491-528. York: Oceana Publications, 1984), especially chap. 2, "Moscow Student Days," and chap. 8, "The Russian Institute Years." For a summary of the study of Slavic languages and literatures, see William B. Edgerton, "The History of Slavistic Scholarship in the United States," in Beiträge zur Geschichte der Slawistik in nichtslawischen Ländern, ed. Josef Hamm and Günther Wytrzens [=Schriften der Balkankommission. Linguistische Abteilung, vol. 30] (Vienna: Verlag der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1985), 491-528
3. For some critical, even petulant, comments, see Horace G. Lunt, "On the History of Slavic Studies in the United States," Slavic Review: American Quarterly of Soviet and East European Studies 46 (1987): 294-301
4. For a collection of selected papers, see Robert F. Byrnes, A History of Selected Essays Russian and East European Studies in the United Stales: Selected Essays (Lanham, MD: Univ. Press of America, 1994)
5. For Russian studies, see Cyril E. Black and others, "An Appraisal of Russian Studies in the United States," The American Slavic and East European Review 18 (1959): 417-41
6. For a note on the contributions of area studies, see Edward L. Keenan "What Have We Learned," NewsNet, The Newsletter of the AAASS 35 (1995): 1-6
7. The fullest treatment of the early years of the exchange program is Robert F. Byrnes, Soviet-American Academic Exchanges (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1976). Robert F. Byrnes, Soviet-American Academic Exchanges (Bloomington: Indiana Univ. Press, 1976)
8. Ralph T. Fisher, Jr., "Swimming with the Current," Russian Russe 21 (1994): 158-59, ACLS Newsletter 11, no. 6 (1960): 9-10. History/Histoire Russe 21 (1994): 158-59, ACLS Newsletter 11, no. 6 (1960): 9-10
9. Donald Treadgold, "When Russian Studies Were Taking Off," Russian History/Histoire Russe 15 (1988): 121
10. Robert F. Byrnes, "Don Treadgold: A Builder of Slavic Studies," in Secular and Religious Forces in Late Tsarist Russia, ed. Charles E. Timberlake (Seattle: Univ. of Washington Press, 1992), 276-82