Word: russian
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Russian and Slavic Studies program of "extraordinary range and strength" will highlight this year's Summer School offerings, Thomas E. Crooks '49, assistant director of the School, stated yesterday...
Related courses in philosophy, history, government, literature and music, as well as language courses have been drawn together in the broadened program, he explained. One of the new courses, covering Russian thought from Ivan the Terrible to Pasternak, will be given by James H. Billington, assistant professor of History. A modern Russian literature course will be conducted by Vsevolod Setschkareff, associate professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures...
Milos M. Velimorovic, of Yale University, will instruct a course in the history of 19th century Russian music...
About Professor Langer, Guber said "the Russian Center at Harvard is headed by the present president of the American Historical Association, professor W. Langer, famous for his works on international relations, his publications of the documents on foreign policies of the U.S.A.--in particular on the eve of the Second World...
...basis for the study of the history and literature of the U.S.S.R.," he said, "are the special libraries of the universities. In particular the enormous Russian department of Harvard University Library numbers hundreds of thousands of volumes." He seemed impressed by the fact that Widener contained "full sets of all Russian pre-revolutionary journals, complete collections of works of Russian historians, complete works of Russian writers" as well as "literature and periodicals after the revolutionary period." He also noted that American libraries also received emigre periodicals, usually anti-soviet...