America Learns Russian

America Learns Russian
Author: Albert Parry
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 205
Release: 1967-01-01
Genre: Russian language
ISBN: 0815621140

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America Learns Russian

America Learns Russian
Author: Albert Parry
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 234
Release: 1967
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: UOM:39015029406306

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Chronologically presented is the slow development of Russian language instruction in America from the latter part of the 18th century at Kodiak, Alaska, to the establishment of large undergraduate departments at leading universities. The influence of Harvard University, the University of California, Columbia University, Pennsylvania State University, and the University of Pennsylvania is well documented. Sputnik of 1957 serves as a major chronological division in this historical overview. Economic, political, cultural, and religious influences behind the growth of Russian study and forces opposed to its expansion are given detailed attention. Appendixes list past and present officers of the American Association of Teachers of Slavic and East European Languages. An extensive index is included.

Americans Experience Russia

Americans Experience Russia
Author: Choi Chatterjee,Beth Holmgren
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 246
Release: 2013
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415893411

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Americans Experience Russia analyzes how American scholars, journalists, and artists experienced and interpreted Russia/the Soviet Union over the last century. It critically engages with postcolonial theories which posit that a self-valorizing, unmediated west dictated the colonial encounter. In examining the fiction, film, journalism, treatises, and histories Americans produced out of their 'Russian experience, ' this volume closely analyzes these texts, locates them in their sociopolitical context, and gauges how their producers' profession, politics, gender, class, and interaction with native Russian interpreters conditioned their authored responses to Russian/Soviet reality.

New Perspectives on Russian American Relations

New Perspectives on Russian American Relations
Author: William Benton Whisenhunt,Norman E. Saul
Publsiher: Routledge
Total Pages: 304
Release: 2015-08-14
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781317425151

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New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations includes eighteen articles on Russian-American relations from an international roster of leading historians. Covering topics such as trade, diplomacy, art, war, public opinion, race, culture, and more, the essays show how the two nations related to one another across time from their first interactions as nations in the eighteenth century to now. Instead of being dominated by the narrative of the Cold War, New Perspectives on Russian-American Relations models the exciting new scholarship that covers more than the political and diplomatic worlds of the later twentieth century and provides scholars with a wide array of the newest research in the field.

Memory Practices and Learning

Memory Practices and Learning
Author: Timothy Reagan, Mugumya Duncans, Yu Xiaohang
Publsiher: AJPO Journals USA LLC
Total Pages: 134
Release: 2023-06-22
Genre: Family & Relationships
ISBN: 9789914745283

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TOPICS IN THE BOOK The Language of Pushkin, The Language of Putin: Teaching Russian in the United States Challenges and Strategies of Parental Engagement among Secondary School Learners in Sheema District, Uganda Family Socioeconomic Status, Parents’ Level of Education and the Parental Engagement in Educational Activities in Sheema District – Uganda Applying the Artistic Psychological Painting Course to Improve the Mental Health of Middle School Students

Russian Soviet Studies in the United States Amerikanistika in Russia

Russian Soviet Studies in the United States  Amerikanistika in Russia
Author: Ivan Kurilla,Victoria I. Zhuravleva
Publsiher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2015-12-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781498517997

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The contributors in this interdisciplinary collection address the problem of interconnection between the study of the “Other,” either Russian or American, and the shaping of national identities in the two countries at different stages of US–Russian relations. The focus of research interests were typically determined by the political and social debates in scholars’ native countries. In this book, leading Russian and American scholars analyze the problems arising from these intersections of academic, political, and sociocultural contexts and the implicit biases they entail. The book is divided into two parts, the first being a historical overview of past configurations of the interrelationship between fields and agendas, and the second covering the role of institutionalized area studies in the twentieth and early twenty-first centuries.In both parts the role of the “human factor” in the study of mutual representations is elucidating.

Scientific Babel

Scientific Babel
Author: Michael D. Gordin
Publsiher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 424
Release: 2015-04-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780226000299

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English is the language of science today. No matter which languages you know, if you want your work seen, studied, and cited, you need to publish in English. But that hasn’t always been the case. Though there was a time when Latin dominated the field, for centuries science has been a polyglot enterprise, conducted in a number of languages whose importance waxed and waned over time—until the rise of English in the twentieth century. So how did we get from there to here? How did French, German, Latin, Russian, and even Esperanto give way to English? And what can we reconstruct of the experience of doing science in the polyglot past? With Scientific Babel, Michael D. Gordin resurrects that lost world, in part through an ingenious mechanism: the pages of his highly readable narrative account teem with footnotes—not offering background information, but presenting quoted material in its original language. The result is stunning: as we read about the rise and fall of languages, driven by politics, war, economics, and institutions, we actually see it happen in the ever-changing web of multilingual examples. The history of science, and of English as its dominant language, comes to life, and brings with it a new understanding not only of the frictions generated by a scientific community that spoke in many often mutually unintelligible voices, but also of the possibilities of the polyglot, and the losses that the dominance of English entails. Few historians of science write as well as Gordin, and Scientific Babel reveals his incredible command of the literature, language, and intellectual essence of science past and present. No reader who takes this linguistic journey with him will be disappointed.

Concord and Conflict

Concord and Conflict
Author: Norman E. Saul
Publsiher: Unknown
Total Pages: 678
Release: 1996
Genre: History
ISBN: UOM:39015031873311

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Between 1867 - the year of the Alaskan purchase - and the beginning of World War I, Russian and American dignitaries, diplomats, businessmen, writers, tourists, and entertainers crossed between the two countries in surprisingly great numbers. Concord and Conflict provides the first comprehensive investigation of this highly transformational and fateful era in Russian-American relations. Excavating previously unmined Russian and American archives, Norman Saul illuminates these fifty significant - and open - years of association between the two countries. He explores the flow and fluctuation of economic, diplomatic, social, and cultural affairs; the personal and professional conflicts and scandals; and the evolution of each nation's perception of the other.