Word: russianness
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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Jaron R. Bourke '89, a literature major, won a Hoopes Prize for his thesis titled, "Presenting History and Historicizing the Present: Bakhtin and His World of Language, Ideology, and Interpretation," an analysis of the works of the Russian literary critic Mikhail Bakhtin...
...should correct some wrong impressions which may arise out of the generally well-written and informative article on the Russian Research Center which appeared in your issue of May 26. In the first place, our center was not "founded with the help of the U.S. government," but has always been supported by non-government funds, foundations, and private donors. I think your article may also convey the impression that the Center was in a condition of intellectual decline in the late 1960s and through the 1970s. While it is true that our funds declined in that period, there was then...
...hope these remarks will help clarify the role of the Russian Research Center in the overall Harvard environment. Adam B. Ulam Director, Russian Research Center
Despite its current troubles, China has an immense advantage over the Soviet Union, and it gives Chinese reformers an immense advantage over their Soviet counterparts. There really is a Chinese people; 94% belong to one ethnic group, Han Chinese. By contrast, Russians make up only 51% of the population of the U.S.S.R.; they are one of more than 100 ethnic groups. Those non- Russian nationalities -- in the Caucasus, in Central Asia, along the Baltic, in the Ukraine -- are already straining at the ties that bind them to Moscow...
...saluted the country's flag. It is all but impossible to imagine something similar happening if Latvians took over the main square in Riga or Ukrainians mobbed downtown Kiev. They would be singing songs and waving flags that would symbolize their dreams of independence and their resentment of Russian domination. Gorbachev's picture might be on their posters too. However, that would be because the demonstrators would see him as not just a reformer but a liberator. That is one role that Mikhail Gorbachev does not want, since it could make him the protagonist in a tragedy. If glasnost...