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...group will be under the supervision of Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures Stanislaw Baranczak, a celebrated Polish dissident, who joined the Faculty...
...Jurij Striedter, professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and a member of the committee, said that in the past. "The Faculty was not interested in training undergraduates to be professional actors," he said...
...Jurij Striedter, professor of Slavic Languages and Literature and a member of the committee, said that in the past. "The Faculty was not interested in training undergraduates to be professional actors," he said...
...There are more teachers of English in the U.S.S.R. than there are students of Russian in the U.S. The prestigious Institute of U.S.A. and Canada in Moscow has an estimated 300 staffers doing research on the U.S. One expert says this is more than all the combined total of Slavic faculty members at the dozen U.S. universities that lead in Soviet studies...
Discouraged by the high cost of graduate education, the paucity of fellowships, and the unsteady job prospects, students are not rushing into Soviet studies. Slavic languages are not easy to learn, sources are often inaccessible, and the U.S.S.R. is unreceptive to U.S. scholars. Even after years of training, a Soviet specialist's job opportunities wax and wane with the climate of detente. The CIA today reports a shortage of Soviet experts, yet it let many go in the '70s. At Harvard's Russian Research Center, Director Adam Ulam is concerned about "the general dearth of specialists...