A history of Slavic studies in the United StatesManning, Clarence Augustus
History
A history of Slavic studies in the United States
Manning, Clarence Augustus
Slavic philology -- Study and teaching; Slavs -- History -- Study and teaching
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of the University of California. Nothing better illustrates the way in
which Slavic studies has developed than this list, for the overwhelming
majority of these scholars represent those institutions where
departments had existed before World War I.
_The American Slavic and East European Review_ is the leading
publication in the United States for Slavic studies. However, other
journals, such as the _Publication of the Modern Language Association_,
_Speculum_, the _Journal of Central European History_ (edited by
Professor S. H. Thomson) and the _Journal of East European History_
(edited by the University of Chicago), also contain specialized
articles. As a matter of fact, there are very few of the more
specialized journals which during the past years have not included
articles on some aspect of the East European historical and cultural
world.
There are also several quarterlies published in the United States which
deal with East Europe. Among these are: _The Russian Review_, edited by
Professor D. von Mohrenschildt of Dartmouth College, originally founded
with the aid of the Russian Student Fund; the _Ukrainian Quarterly_,
edited by Professor Nicholas Chubaty for the Ukrainian Congress
Committee of America; and, the _Polish Review_, published by the Polish
Institute of Arts and Sciences in America. We may also place here the
_Armenian Review_, edited by Mr. Reuben Darbinian for the Hairenik
Association (Boston, Mass.). These are scholarly journals devoted to the
language, culture and history of the people for whom they are compiled,
which cannot be overlooked in any survey of the intellectual output for
East European subjects. There are also many smaller organs and bulletins
of societies, often with world wide connection, which serve a more
specialized political program. They are important for their frequent
opposition to the accepted viewpoint of history and culture, but are
essentially more political than scholarly in its content. As has been
stressed again and again, Slavic studies have developed so largely under
the influence of the imperial Russian and German traditions that truth
has often seemed to be merely what was decided in pre-World War I St.
Petersburg and Berlin.
The Slavic group of the Modern Language Association of America is still
the leading scientific center for philologists and students of
literature in the broadest sense of the word. It holds a yearly meeting,
concurrent with the Modern Language Association, and is divided into two
parts, literary and philological. It offers the best possibilities for
the developing of personal contacts among more serious students. In time
it should become a section parallel to that of the English, Romance and
Germanic sections but the day when there are sufficient members is still
in the future.
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