Word: slavic
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...mail to Dean of Harvard College Benedict H. Gross ’71 and then-Associate Dean of Undergraduate Education Jeffrey Wolcowitz, noted that the State Department’s warnings applied to countries concentrated in specific regions, namely Africa, the Middle East, and several Slavic nations, thus precluding students who study these areas from pursuing their interests abroad...
...rise of the hero disposed to combat one of his age's great scourges and his undaunted denouement was an unsettling second act, as more liberal believers realized that their shepherd could be autocratic, hardheaded and disapproving. For such disaffected followers, John Paul was not unlike another great Slavic moralist, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, lionized while his prophetic voice was raised against the Soviet behemoth and less welcome when he turned it on the victorious West. James Carroll, a former priest who has written frequently on the church and the Pope, says, "Americans clearly loved this man's goodness. But we were...
According to Svetlana Boym, who is the Reisinger professor of Slavic languages and literatures and professor of comparative literature, artists in the USSR offered a “vision of Paradise” that flatly contradicted the harsher realities of political purges, labor camps, and starvation...
Piotr Brzezinski ’07, a Crimson editorial comper, is an economics and Slavic Languages and Literature concentrator in Currier House...
Friday, February 18. The Davis Center and the Slavic Department present “Moscow in Russian Songs and Poetry.” 3:30 P.M. Thompson Room, Barker Center. Free...