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...difficult year," says Adam B. Ulam, Gurney Professor of History and Political Science and director of the Russian Research Center. "But then the ambassador to Russia cannot usually do much anyway," he adds...
Fortunately for Ulam and the others affiliated with the Center, Kluckhohn was wrong, but the degree by which he missed the mark perhaps reflects the state of knowledge and understanding of Russia and the Soviet Union in the spring of 1947, when the staff of the Carnegie Foundation first approached Harvard with the idea of establishing a program for Russian studies. At that time--less than two years after the end of the Second World War--the University did not even have a Slavic Department. Although a few people of Russian descent taught at Harvard, they were mostly teaching other...
...offer is office space, intellectual stimulation and one of the three or four best libraries in the world," Ulam says. In the past that may have been enough, but today with rising costs of living and more lucrative options elsewhere, Ulam and others are not so sure...
...Ulam--referring to the group of scholars who founded the center--calls himself "practically the last Mohican," and notes that many of the professors and scholars associated with the center over the years have left, going unreplaced...
...funding deficit has forced the center to turn in another undesired direction. Over the years, Ulam says, the center has suffered most from the "persistent rumor" about its connection with the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), a rumor which Ulam vehemently denies. In an attempt to rid itself of that reputation, the center for many years made an effort not to do any government work. There has been one recorded exception to this rule: In the early 1950s the center undertook a project to study Soviet society for the Air Force, sending 20 interviewers to Munich to interview nearly 1900 former...