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...Russian Research Center is exactly what its name indicates. It is a scholarly establishment dedicated to research, not to popularization; it is a center, and not a coordinating agency for team projects. Although members of the staff--particularly Professor Merle Fainsod, the current director--are frequently requested by journalists to comment upon Soviet events, they regard the Center's function not as communication with public or press, but as contribution to scholarly knowledge of Russian society, government, economy and history. Marshall D. Shulman, associate director of the Center, notes with justifiable pride that each volume in the Russian Research Center...
These volumes, in general, are studies by individual scholars within a certain area of Soviet life. Although the Center believes in what the socal relation people call interdisciplinary "cross-fertilization," it does not seek to accomplish this through collaboration or group projects. As Kluckhohn observed in the foreword to Joseph S. Berliner's Factory and Manager in the USSR (No. 27 in the Russian Research Center series), the Center thinks that such an inter-disciplinary approach is most successful when it takes place "under one skull...
...this reason, the scholars at the Russian Research Center generally work next to each other, not together. They meet in the lunchroom at 16 Dunster Street, and participate in periodical seminars on selected topics in the Soviet field. The interdisciplinary cross-feritilization is thus stimulated by constant exposure to different approaches and not by collaboration and attempts at synthesis...
...carried on in co-operation with the United States Air Force, a team of twenty interviewers spent nearly a year in Munich collecting material from former Soviet citizens who had fled the U.S.S.R. The results were processed and studied by sociologists, anthropologists, psychologists, economists and political scientists at the Center. Fifty major reports were sent to the Air Force as a result of the Center's work...
...predecessors, Kluckhohn and Langer, specialized in cultural anthropology and European history, respectively, with special though only peripheral interest in the Russian field. Fainsod, on the other hand is perhaps the nation's foremost authority on Russian government, and his How Russia is Ruled (No. 11 in the Russian Center services) ranks as the definitive volume in its area...