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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...
...appointment of Fainsod as director this fall, to succeed Professor William L. Langer, is significant since Fainsod is the first real Russian specialist to occupy the position. His 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...
Thoe who want to get out of the small time, however, would do well to drift over to Emerson D, where Professor Fainsod in Gov. 115 gives a course in dictatorship, as practiced by our neighbors to the East and West, Russia...
...Merle Fainsod, professor of Government, has received the annual Faculty Prize of the Harvard University Press. The award, presented by President Pusey at a Faculty Club luncheon yesterday, was for Fainsod's recent book Smolensk under Sovlet Rule...
...member of the Harvard Research Center's executive committee, Fainsod is engaged in a series of studies of Soviet and American Government. His earlier works include How Russia is Ruled and Government and the American Economy...