MARQUETTE SLAVIC STUDIES III A History of Slavic Studies in the United States A History of Slavic Studies in the United States Clarence A. Manning _Associate Professor of Slavic Languages Columbia University_ THE MARQUETTE UNIVERSITY PRESS MILWAUKEE 1957 WISCONSIN MARQUETTE SLAVIC STUDIES are published under the direction of the Slavic Institute of Marquette University. _Edited by_ ROMAN SMAL-STOCKI _Advisory Board_ CYRIL E. SMITH ALFRED SOKOLNICKI CHRISTOPHER SPALATIN The views expressed in the MARQUETTE SLAVIC STUDIES are those of their authors, and are not to be construed as representing the point of view of the Slavic Institute. Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 57–11742 ©Copyright, 1957, Marquette University Press, Milwaukee, Wis. MANUFACTURED IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA Contents INTRODUCTION vii _Chapter 1_ THE SLAVS IN AMERICA 1 _Chapter 2_ MASS IMMIGRATION 9 _Chapter 3_ SLAVIC STUDIES IN THE NINETEENTH CENTURY 17 _Chapter 4_ THE BEGINNING OF FORMAL STUDY 25 _Chapter 5_ SLAVIC EFFORTS BEFORE WORLD WAR I 36 _Chapter 6_ FROM 1914 TO 1939 44 _Chapter 7_ SLAVIC STUDIES SINCE 1939 62 _Chapter 8_ THE FUTURE TASKS OF SLAVIC AND EAST EUROPEAN STUDIES 83 Integration in American consciousness. The divisions of the area. Undergraduate courses. Language instruction. Graduate work. Area studies. Summary. BIBLIOGRAPHY 109 INDEX 114 Introduction Preparing an adequate history of Slavic and East European studies in the United States is not an easy task. Much of the pertinent material has never been collected. Where it has been brought together, it has never been adequately evaluated or put in its proper setting against the general American cultural and educational development. Any attempt at a synthesis of the situation must then be highly tentative, subject to correction and amplification.