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Russian

Russian Department - Wesleyan University Wesleyan’s Russian department thrived for over forty years as one of the four or five leading undergraduate Russian departments in the country. Most of the important Russian writers of the 1970s-1990s passed through or emigrated directly to Wesleyan, gathering at faculty houses for Russian-style conversations over dinner about current literary problems in Russia. Over two decades, before the end of the USSR, our invitations made it possible for leading writers, critics, and linguists and their families to emigrate to the United States when they and their careers were in jeopardy within the USSR, and those families in turn have aided many other Russians. Our faculty has built a network of academics and professionals in Moscow to whom we have sent our students, contacts which in those times of censorship and repression required the trust we had established over years of scholarly and personal exchanges, attending each others’ conferences, translating and publishing each others’ work. Our support of these Russian writers and scholars was a major contribution to the Russian studies community in the West.

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