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Archibald Cary Coolidge: A Founder of Russian Studies in the United States

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  27 January 2017

Robert F. Byrnes
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Americans have paid relatively little attention to the history of higher education in the United States, and Russian specialists have neglected the history of their own field, even though our foundations strongly affect our qualities as scholarteachers and the circumstances in which we work. One of the most important founding fathers of Russian studies in the United States was Archibald Cary Coolidge, a member of the Department of History at Harvard University from 1893 until his death in 1928, who launched teaching and research concerning Russia and Eastern Europe at Harvard and in many other colleges and universities through those whom he helped train.

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Slavic Review , Volume 37 , Issue 4 , December 1978 , pp. 651 - 667
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Copyright © Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies. 1978

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