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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Other events planned for the week include tours of Harvard and Boston, auditing of Harvard courses, visits to M.I.T. and to Newton High School, and attendance at the Amherst-Tufts football game. Most of the evenings will be left relatively free, with local students and Faculty entertaining the visitors in their homes and rooms...
...result was Harvard's Research Center, which began operations February 1, 1948, under the direction of Clyde Kluckhohn, professor of Anthropology. The initial staff of the infant organization consisted of the director, and associate director, six faculty members on part time appointments, two research associates, and five graduate student fellows...
...humble project has grown, over a 12-year period, to number a staff of nearly 50 people, to publish a series of books now totaling 35 and to occupy a position of unquestioned world-wide eminence in the Russian field. Scholars come from all over the world to use Harvard's excellent collection of Soviet documents and publications and to consult with the personnel of the Center...
...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 series published by the Harvard University Press represents a solid, thoughtful piece of scholarship...
...only exception to this rule against team projects was the Harvard Project on the Soviet Social System, a large undertaking leading to three books so far--How the Soviet System Works: Cultural, Psychological, and Social Themes, by Raymond A. Bauer, Alex Inkeles and Clyde Kluckhohn, the Berliner volume, and Mark G. Field's Doctor and Patient in Soviet Russia--and numerous articles. In this study, 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...