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THE ASSOCIATION kiw of the University of Alberta, "Leninism and Religion." Guest speaker at the annual By June 30, 1962, the membership of the dinner was Pierre Demers, F.R.S.C, Profes­ AAASS had passed 1,300—an increase of sor of Physics at the University of Montreal, about 400 over that of one year before. In Member of the Provincial Arts Council, July another university joined the eighteen Quebec, and President of the Canadian- that have been helping to support the Asso­ Russian Circle, University of Montreal. At ciation with yearly gifts. The latest con­ the final day's session, Wiktor Litwinowicz tributor has pledged $600 annually, for five of McGill University discussed "Some As­ years beginning 1962-63, to the AAASS and pects of Russian Outer Space Onomastics" its journal, the Slavic Review. Although it and F.B. Lozinski of the University of Mon­ has not been customary to publish the list treal spoke on "Historical Implications of of contributing institutions, the list is avail­ the Name Kiev in Arabic Sources"; Milos able (through the Secretary) to representa­ Mladenovic of McGill University presided. tives of other institutions who wish to con­ The terminal session was chaired by L. J. sider making similar contributions. Shein of McMaster University, and papers were presented by R. Neuhauser of the Uni­ A second edition of the Directory of mem­ versity of Toronto, "Philosophical System bers of the AAASS, revised and enlarged, is of P. Th. Chaadayev"; R. Morgan of St. in preparation and is expected to be fin­ Jean Royal Military College, "Joseph Con­ ished during this winter. Like the first edi­ rad, The Polish Pilgrim"; and Ivo Moravcik tion, the second will list all members alpha­ of the University of Alberta, "The Origin betically, with data concerning their educa­ of the Priority of Heavy Industry as an Ob­ tion, positions, and research interests, and jective of Soviet Economic Policy." will also contain supplementary listings by geographical area and by academic disci­ The next annual meeting will take place pline. at Laval University in Quebec. B. R. Bociurkiw of the University of AAASS mailing lists are available at the Alberta is the new president. Vice-president following rates: $25.00 plus costs for print­ is M. Mladenovic of McGill University, sec­ ing the membership on envelopes or labels; retary-treasurer is V. O. Buyniak of the $25.00 plus costs for printing the subscrip­ University of Saskatchewan, and J. St. Clair- tion list on envelopes or labels. Costs are versity, Hamilton, Ontario, June 14-16, 1962. about one cent per name, currently about Chairmen of the first day's meetings were $13.00 for the membership list and $8.00 for Louis Kos-Rabcewicz-Zubkowski of the Uni­ the subscription list. Persons or institutions versity of Montreal, who was president of wishing to use this service should write to the CAS for 1961-62, and Orest Starchuk of the Secretary's office in Champaign. the University of Alberta. Papers were pre­ sented by Wladimir Grebenschikov of the All members are requested to note that University of Montreal, "Quelques observa­ changes of address should be sent not to the tions statistiques comparatives de stylistique Review in Seattle but to Mrs. Reed at the russe, franchise et anglaise"; Yar Slavutych Association's office in Champaign, since the of the University of Edmonton, "The files and addressograph plates are in Cham- Ukrainian Surnames in—ENKO"; and Milos paign-Urbana. Mladenovic of McGill University, "Turkic Linguistic Influence upon Balkan Slavs." G. CONFERENCES W. Simpson of the University of Saskatche­ Note: Further details of the following con­ wan and Constantine Bida of the University ferences, which have already taken place, as of Ottawa were in charge of the second day's well as announcements of future meetings, meetings, during which Joseph Kirschbaum are given in the Newsletter, which is sent to of the University of Montreal spoke on "Bi­ all members of the AAASS. centennial of Birth of A. Bernolak, First Codifier of Slovak Language"; Louis Kos- GENERAL Rabcewicz-Zubkowski of the University of The Canadian Association of Slavists en­ Montreal, "Workers' Courts in the Polish joyed a three-day session at McMaster Uni- People's Republic"; and Bohdan R. Bociur- News of the Profession 791

Sobell of the University of British Columbia The Forty-fifth Annual Meeting of the Cen­ is chairman of the editorial committee. The tral States Modern Language Teachers As­ advisory board is composed of J. B. Rud- sociation was held in Detroit, Mich., on nyckyj of the University of Manitoba, O. May 4-5, 1962. That portion of the confer­ Starchuk of the University of Alberta, and ence devoted to the Slavic languages was C. Bida of the University of Ottawa. Hon­ chaired by Harold L. Klagstad, Jr., of In­ orary presidents are W. J. Rose, University diana University, with Albert Kaspin of the of British Columbia, G. W. Simpson, Uni­ University of Wisconsin as secretary. The versity of Saskatchewan, and Msgr. Irenee speakers were Howard I. Aronson of the Lussier, P.D., University of Montreal. University of Wisconsin, Ladislav Matejka of the University of Michigan, and Walter About 300 persons attended the third sum­ N. Vickery of Indiana University. mer conference of the Institute for Soviet and East European Studies at John Carroll A Conference on the Teaching of Russian University, Cleveland, Ohio, on June 22-23, in Pennsylvania was held on the University 1962. Dr. Michael S. Pap, Associate Profes­ Park campus of the Pennsylvania State Uni­ sor of History and Political Science and Di­ versity, May 18-19, 1962, with almost one rector of the Institute, organized the con­ hundred persons attending. William B. ference. The topic under discussion was Edgerton of Indiana University gave the "Colonialism—Soviet Russian Style." Pro­ principal address, entitled "The Teaching gram speakers were Dr. Hans Kohn, Profes­ of Russian in America: A Modest Proposal." sor Emeritus of History, City University of Papers on all phases of the teaching of New York; Dr. Peter G. Stercho, Associate Russian were read, and each paper was fol­ Professor of Economics and Political Science, lowed by a lively discussion. Thomas F. St. Vincent College; Dr. Jan Karski, Associ­ Magner, Head of the Department of Slavic ate in Government, Georgetown University; Languages of the Pennsylvania State Uni­ Dr. Alfred Skerpan, Professor of History, versity, was conference chairman. Among Kent State University; and Dr. Pap. The those present were Arthur P. Coleman of proceedings of the symposium will be pub­ Alliance College, Alfred Senn of the Uni­ lished as a special volume by the Institute. versity of Pennsylvania, Charles Bidwell of the University of Pittsburgh, Frances de Graaff of Bryn Mawr College, and represen­ tatives from many other institutions. LANGUAGE AND LITERATURE Two sections were devoted to the Slavic lan­ guages when the Fifteenth Annual Foreign INSTITUTIONAL DEVELOPMENTS Language Conference was held at the Uni­ The staff of the Slavonic Division of the versity of Kentucky, April 26-28, 1962. Rob­ Department of Modern Languages, Univer­ ert P. Moore was section organizer and sity of Alberta, now comprises O. Starchuk, Abraham Kreusler, Professor of Russian Associate Professor and Head of the Divi­ Studies at Randolph-Macon Woman's Col­ sion; Y. Slavutych, Assistant Professor; G. lege, presided at the first meeting. Professor Melnikov, Lecturer in Russian; J. L. Lay- Kreusler read a paper, as did Jack Weiner chuk, Lecturer in Russian; W. Carey, Lec­ of Indiana University, John P. Pauls of the turer in Russian, and J. Gregory, part-time University of Cincinnati, Peter Ourousoff Instructor in Russian. During 1961-62 the of Lake Forest Academy, Sister Marie-Mar­ student registration in the Department to­ garita, S.N.D., of Emmanuel College, Irwin taled 220. Professor Starchuk reports that Weil of Brandeis University, Ihor A. Levit- during 1961-62 the Slavonic Division offered sky of the University of Georgia, and Mi­ three special sections of beginners' Russian chael C. Astour of Brandeis University. for art students and three special sections During the second session, chaired by Wil­ of beginners' Russian for science students. liam R. Schmalstieg of Lafayette College, Staff members were assisted by John Gre­ papers were contributed by Robert Vlach, gory of the Alberta Research Council, who University of Oklahoma; Matthew H. Volm, taught one section of scientific Russian. In University of Virginia; Bohdan Plaskacz, addition, a senior course in scientific Rus­ Louisiana State University; Kurt Klein, Uni­ sian, designed for graduate students, was versity of Illinois; Michael Klimenko, Uni­ offered by Mr. Melnikov. A special honors versity of Kansas; R. E. Steussy, University program of Slavonic and Soviet studies, su­ of Oregon; Rebecca Domar; and Sister pervised by an interdepartmental committee Maria Thekla, S.C., Sacred Heart High (Slavonic Division, Political Economy, and School of Pittsburgh. History Departments), proved successful. A 792 Slavic Review beginners' Polish course and three Ukrain­ Program also organizes and directs for the ian courses (beginners', intermediate, and State of New York the summer Institute on senior) were offered, with Professor Slavu- the Soviet Union for social studies teachers tych conducting the courses in intermediate of elementary and secondary schools of the and senior Ukrainian. The Department of state (six weeks each, in the summers of 1961 Modern Languages has been authorized to and 1962). offer Ph.D. degrees in the field of Russian and Slavonic languages and literatures. Fur­ Cornell University is allocating a portion of ther information may be obtained from the its international studies grant from the Ford Department. Foundation (see below) to the university's Committee on Soviet Studies, established in A new source of information in English on 1961. These funds are to be used in the current Soviet research on the archaeology, main for faculty research on the general ethnography, and physical anthropology of patterns of Russia's social, economic, and Siberia and northern European Russia is political development in the nineteenth and provided by the serial publication, Arctic twentieth centuries. Anthropology, the first issue of which ap­ This is the fifth year of the program spon­ peared in July, 1962. Papers by Soviet schol­ sored by the Council on Student Travel ars (in translation) as well as studies and under the U.S.-USSR Cultural Exchange analyses of recent Soviet work and biblio­ Agreement. Thirty-six American students graphical materials on the area will be regu­ took part in the forty-day program of study lar features of this series, which will appear in the Soviet Union. Jerry F. Hough, As­ at irregular intervals. Subscriptions, $4.00 sistant Professor of Political Science at the per volume (two numbers), should be sent University of Illinois, directed the special to the editor, Chester S. Chard, Department orientation sessions aboard the ocean liner of Anthropology, University of Wisconsin, "Aurelia" on the first leg of the journey, Madison 6, Wis. beginning in June, 1962. Cooperating with the Council this summer were the Lisle The Russian Studies Program of Colgate Fellowship and the National Student Coun­ University, Hamilton, N.Y., directed by Al­ cils of the YMCA and YWCA. bert Parry, has just completed the use of the four-year (1958-62) $20,000 grant re­ With recent allocations of $3,250,000 to Cor­ ceived from the Allis-Chalmers Foundation nell University and $1,200,000 to the Uni­ of Milwaukee, Wis. The grant was used for versity of Wisconsin, the Ford Foundation scholarships for Colgate University students continues its series of grants for long-range majoring in Russian studies, achievement support of non-Western studies. Cornell prizes for students of Russian, instructional University will use its grant over a period expenses, visiting lecturers, audio-visual of ten years for graduate training and re­ aids, purchase of Russian books and sub­ search in non-Western and other interna­ scriptions to Russian periodicals, and re­ tional studies. At Wisconsin, the grant will search by staff members. A $4,000 grant be used mainly for area-study programs on from Humanities Fund, Inc., of New York Latin America, India, and the Soviet Union. is being used currently to provide a scholar­ The College of Agriculture will receive ship for a freshman at Colgate who has pre­ assistance for research and training in land viously studied Russian. By the donors' economics and land tenure. wish, this scholarship was named in honor of the late Professor Michael M. Karpovich I.C.R.S. Medical Reports, published by of Harvard University, the Fund's former Fordham University for its Institute of Con­ president. The Russian Studies Program at temporary Russian Studies, contains reviews Colgate, established by Professor Parry in of current Soviet findings in medicine and 1947, includes courses in language, litera­ related fields as published chiefly in Soviet ture, civilization, history, geography, eco­ medical journals. It also includes data on nomics, socio-political institutions, and for­ congresses and meetings and other medical eign policy. news. The staff is headed by Dr. Walter C. In cooperation with Colgate's Department Jaskievicz, administrator, and Dr. Robert S. of Education, the Russian Studies Program Ecke, editor. Consulting editors include Y. has for the past several years arranged in­ Gertners Arbatsky, Charles A. Berger, struction in Russian for gifted high-school George A. Carasso, Albert J. Sica, and E. A. juniors and seniors from a score of towns in White. Research associates are S. A. Bo- central New York. Colgate's Russian Studies guslavsky, M. Brandt, Givi K. Coby, Ethel News of the Profession 793

Dunn, Stephen P. Dunn, Eric W. Fenwick, of present importance at greater length and H. Schulz, and J. A. Stekol. Contributors in a broader context than the Bulletin. In are Svetlaha Gadillo, Fritz Haas, Bernd addition to these formal offerings, the Insti­ Hoerning, Mindaugas Mikolainis, E. L. tute also circulates a routine weekly report Nowicki, and R. Pollitzer. The price is on current activities. $1.00 a copy. The Institute for International Youth The Institute of East-European Studies at Affairs, 133 East 39th St., New York 16, the University of Fribourg, Switzerland, an­ N.Y., continues to publish up-to-date edi­ nounces a new quarterly publication, tions of its travel booklets. AAASS members Studies in Soviet Thought. Most of the contemplating travel to the USSR, Czecho­ articles will be in English, but German and slovakia, Hungary, or Poland are invited to French will also be employed. The editors write for copies. intend the publication to serve as an inter­ national medium for the presentation of Wayne D. Fisher, Assistant Professor of Edu­ research papers, short notes, critical reviews, cation in Russian, the University of Chi­ and other writings having to do with con­ cago, who is President of the National temporary Soviet philosophy (concerning Council of High School Teachers of Rus­ Communist countries as well as the Soviet sian, announces that the NCHSTR and its Union). Joseph M. Bochenski is editor and sister professional organization, the Ameri­ Thomas J. Blakely is managing editor. The can Association of Teachers of Slavic and editorial board is composed of David D. East European Languages, have effected a Comey, Helmut Fleischer, and Siegfried merger at the invitation of the latter group Muller-Markus. Consulting editors are and with the overwhelming approval of the Arnold Buchholz of Stuttgart, Helmut former. Dr. Fisher expects that his organi­ Dahm of Bonn, Zbigniew Jordan of London, zation, functioning as the precollegiate George L. Kline of Bryn Mawr, Nicolas council of AATSEEL, will continue to pub­ Lobkowicz of Notre Dame, Gustav A. Wet­ lish a monthly or bimonthly newsletter di­ ter of Rome, and Karl A. Wittfogel of New rected to secondary school teachers, and York. Subscription is $11.25 per year; pay­ may expand it to include information of ments should be sent directly to D. Reidel interest to elementary school teachers. Publishing Co., Dordrecht, Holland. The Institute also publishes Bibliographie der The United States Office of Education, Lan­ Sowjetischen Philosophic, for which it is guage Development Section, has awarded a now completing a survey of all articles, $21,602 contract to the Department of books, and other works on Soviet philoso­ Slavic Languages of the University of Penn­ phy published in the USSR from 1947 to sylvania for the compilation of a Dictionary 1960. of Russian Personal Names with a Guide to Stress and Morphology. The Principal In­ An Institute for Sino-Soviet Studies has been vestigator will be Morton Benson, Associate established within the School of Govern­ Professor of Slavic Languages. ment, Business, and International Affairs at George Washington University. Kurt Lon­ The Russian Review has published a Cumu­ don will direct the Institute's research pro­ lative Index to Volumes 1-20, covering the gram of Sino-Soviet studies, which is to be period from November, 1941, to November, combined with graduate courses. The plans 1961. It was compiled by Virginia Close. of the Institute include training projects for The index lists all articles by author and the government, with courses for govern­ subject. Book reviews are listed alphabeti­ ment employees on a full-time or part-time cally both under the author of the book and basis. Dr. London reports that the program under the author of the review. The 112- is designed to train "a new breed of gen- page index may be purchased for $2.00 from eralists" who can cope effectively with the the Russian Review, 235 Baker Library, problems of the East-West conflict. Hanover, N.H.

The Institute for the Study of the USSR in Tulane University announces the addition Munich has introduced a new quarterly of a Department of Russian, with courses journal, Studies on the Soviet Union. It is leading to a B.A. degree with a major in seen as a complement to the monthly Russian language and literature. Dr. Paul Bulletin and is aimed at meeting the de­ Debreczeny is head of the department. He mand for a journal dealing with problems is assisted by Dr. Maria Ovcharenko. 794 Slavic Review

An unusual opportunity for students of the and Eastern Languages. Columbia Univer­ USSR and nearby countries of Eastern sity: Robert A. Maguire of Dartmouth Col­ Europe to visit their area of study and re­ lege appointed Assistant Professor of Rus­ ceive a good salary at the same time is sian Language and Literature. Cornell Uni­ offered by the U.S. Information Agency. The versity: Patricia J. Carden of Columbia Agency needs guides for American exhibits University appointed Instructor in Russian that will be traveling in the USSR and in Literature; Jack C. Fisher of Syracuse Uni­ Eastern Europe. In general, a knowledge of versity appointed Assistant Professor of City the language and culture of the country is Planning in the College of Architecture; required. At least five exhibits, employing Walter McK. Pintner of Princeton University eighty-six guides, are scheduled for periods appointed Assistant Professor of History; ranging from six weeks to six months, and Michael Samilov of the University of Cali­ additional exhibits will be arranged as fornia at Berkeley appointed Assistant Pro­ funds are provided. Persons who are inter­ fessor of Slavic Linguistics; Olga Samilov of ested should register with Mr. John W. Mills College appointed Instructor in Rus­ Auer, Employment Branch, Room 124, U.S. sian Language. Dartmouth College: David Information Agency, Washington 25, D.C. Goldstein, Paris Representative of the American Committee for Liberation, ap­ The University of Vermont has created a pointed Lecturer in Russian Civilization. Center for Area Studies, with Robert V. Daniels of the Department of History as George Washington University: Kurt L. Chairman. The stated purposes of the Cen­ London appointed Director of the new In­ ter are "to encourage and coordinate inter­ stitute for Sino-Soviet Studies which is disciplinary study of selected foreign areas, established within the School of Govern­ to promote research on foreign areas, and ment, Business, and International Affairs; to stimulate general interest in these areas." Ronald Thompson promoted to Professor of The Center's Program of Russian and East Russian History. Hunter College: Peter H. European Studies is under the chairman­ Juviler promoted to Assistant Professor of ship of L. A. D. Dellin, Associate Professor Political Science. Indiana University: Rob­ of Economics. This program is based on a ert L. Baker promoted to Assistant Professor combination of social science courses and of Slavic Languages and Literatures; Ante appropriate language training, including Kadic promoted to Associate Professor of four years' study of the Russian language. Slavic Languages and Literatures; John M. Disciplines included in the four-year cur­ Thompson promoted to Associate Professor riculum include history, political science, of History; Piotr Wandycz promoted to As­ English, literature, economics, geography, sociate Professor of History. sociology, and government. Electives are also available in anthropology. Miami University (Ohio): Dan N. Jacobs promoted to Associate Professor of Govern­ APPOINTMENTS AND STAFF CHANGES ment. University of Michigan: Arthur P. University of Alberta: Bohdan R. Bociurkiw Mendel of New York University appointed promoted to Associate Professor of Political Associate Professor of History. Michigan Science; Martin Katz appointed Assistant State University: Nikolai Poltoratzky, Asso­ Professor of History. American University, ciate Professor of Russian, named Director Washington, D.C: W. Donald Bowles pro­ of the Russian Program. University of Min­ moted to Associate Professor of Economics nesota: Benjamin P. Uroff of Columbia and named Chairman of the Department of University appointed Instructor in History. Economics; F. C. Nano appointed Profes­ Monmouth College: Alexandra Kalmykow sorial Lecturer on Eastern Europe. Univer­ promoted to Assistant Professor of Lan­ sity of Arizona: J. Gregory Oswald pro­ guages and Social Sciences. Neiu York Uni­ moted to Associate Professor of History. versity: William L. Blackwell of the College Boston College: M. K. Dziewanowski pro­ of William and Mary appointed Assistant moted to Professor of History. University of Professor of History at the Graduate School California, Davis: Paul E. Zinner of Colum­ of Arts and Science and the Washington bia University appointed Associate Professor Square College. University of Oklahoma: of Political Science. Kenneth I. Dailey of Syracuse University appointed Associate Professor of History. University of Colorado: Frances F. Sobotka of the University of Illinois appointed Vis­ University of Pennsylvania: William W. iting Professor in the Department of Slavic Brickman of New York University appointed News of the Profession 795

Professor of Educational History and Com­ Rothenberg, Joseph Rothschild, Harold B. parative Education at the Graduate School Segel, William B. Slottman, and Edward of Education. C. W. Post College, Green- Stankiewicz. vale, N.Y.: Richard Bonine of the Univer­ sity of Oregon appointed Assistant Professor DEATHS of Russian History. Princeton University: Robert C. Tucker of Indiana University ap­ DAVID DALLIN (1889-1962) pointed Professor of Politics. University of APPRECIATION CONTRIBUTED BY LEOPOLD H. Texas: Nikola Pribic of the University of HAIMSON, UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO Munich appointed Associate Professor of Slavic Languages and Literatures. U.S. De­ David IuFevich Dallin (Levin), who died in partment of State: Foy D. Kohler, assistant New York on February 21, 1962, at the age secretary of state for European affairs, ap­ of seventy-two, was one of the last survivors pointed Ambassador to the USSR. U.S. of that brilliant pleiad in the Menshevik in­ News and World Report magazine: Alexan­ telligentsia who so richly combined out­ der Kucherov promoted to the position of standing intellectual ability and oratorical Chief of the Vienna Bureau. and publicistic talents. Through most of his adult life, this exceptionally forceful Vaughan Road Collegiate High School, To­ and self-disciplined personality was drawn ronto, Ontario: Jaromir Petricek appointed equally to the worlds of scholarship and as faculty member. Washington State Uni­ radical politics and—despite the strokes of versity: Richard G. Kappler of Victoria fortune which swept him from Russia to College appointed Associate Professor of Germany, Poland, France, and eventually Foreign Languages. University of Wiscon­ the United States—made a prominent mark sin: Xenia Z. Gasiorowski promoted to As­ in both. sociate Professor of Slavic Languages and Born in a merchant family of Rogachov Literatures. Yale University: Alexander M. (Mogilev guberniia) in 1889, Dallin was Schenker promoted to Associate Professor of eighteen years old when he enrolled (in the Russian and Polish and named Acting fall of 1907) in the Law Faculty of the Uni­ Chairman, Department of Slavic Languages versity of St. Petersburg and simultaneously and Literatures, for 1962-63. joined the Menshevik Party. In 1909 he suffered his first arrest for his party activity, and a year later underwent his first political exile. Dallin continued his studies in Ger­ OTHER PROFESSIONAL NOTES many, first at Berlin and then at Heidel­ Under a program sponsored jointly by the berg, where he was awarded in 1913 a Doc­ American Council of Learned Societies and torate in Philosophy and Political Science. the Social Science Research Council, grants The outbreak of the First World War were awarded this year to nineteen scholars aroused in Dallin an uncompromising and for research or for publication of the results unwavering response. A Left International­ of research in Slavic and East European ist, determined to bring the War to an end studies. Research grants to individuals are through the joint action of the European intended for the provision of free time, for working class, he took refuge in Sweden domestic or foreign travel necessary to gain where, up to the outbreak of the Russian access to materials, for clerical or research Revolution, he vigorously supported the assistance, or for reproduction or purchase platform of the Zimmerwald Left. Upon of research materials. Publication grants his return to Russia in April, 1917, he be­ are awarded to individuals in order to sub­ came a major spokesman for the Left Inter­ sidize the publication of book-length re­ nationalists—even more unrelenting than search manuscripts in the field of Slavic and Martov in his criticism of the Revolutionary East European studies which have been ac­ Defensist line then followed by the party's cepted by publishers but cannot be pub­ majority. Even after his election to the lished without subvention. Research grants Central Committee at the Unification Con­ were made to Paul H. Avrich, Jeremy R. gress of August, 1917, Dallin's remained a Azrael, Emily C. Brown, Robert F. Byrnes, minority voice in the councils of the Men­ Michael Cherniavsky, Stephen A. Fischer- shevik Party, but at this moment began his Galati, Georges V. Florovsky, Thomas T. close political and personal collaboration Hammond, Heinz Kohler, Leon Lipson, with Martov which was to last until the John Mersereau, Jr., Richard H. Moorsteen, latter's death in 1923. The major realign­ Pertti J. Pelto, Boris P. Pesek, Gunther E. ment in the party that emerged after Korni- 796 Slavic Review lov's aborted coup and the October Revolu­ him into some vigorous exchanges with tion brought Dallin to the fore as a leader Martov about the "revolutionary" and "so­ of the Martov-Dan Internationalist bloc. As cialist" perspectives in contemporary Eu­ a spokesman for this new party majority, he rope, he continued to endorse the modu­ followed its line of attacking the authori­ lated position toward the Soviet regime and tarian features of the Soviet regime while the international labor movement formu­ calling for the defense of the Soviet power lated by Martov and Dan and supported against foreign intervention and domestic until the end of the 1920's by the majority "reaction." Throughout the period of the of the Zagranichnaia Delegatsiia. The era Civil War and war communism Dallin of the Five-Year Plans, with its accentuation maintained this precarious balancing act in of the totalitarian and terroristic features of his pronouncements as a deputy to the Mos­ Stalinist rule, caused more fundamental cow Soviet, his addresses to congresses of changes in Dallin's views. A bitter critic of Soviets and trade unions, and his articles in the "General Line" of forced-draft industri­ the Menshevik press: As late as 1920 he alization and collectivization even before the was advocating support of the war effort Great Purges, Dallin now began to advocate against Poland while condemning the severe so unrelenting a struggle against the Soviet political repressions that were already sti­ regime that he felt impelled in 1934 to fling the life of his party and all other break with his old comrades in the Zagra­ "democratic" opposition. nichnaia Delegatsiia. As always, Dallin held uncompromisingly to his stand, and he re­ Yet there already appeared in Dallin's joined the Zagranichnaia Delegatsiia only contemporary statements a personal and in 1939 when, jointly with Boris Nicolaevsky distinctive note of unrestrained skepticism and Rafael Abramovich, he was able to or­ concerning the "socialist potential" of the ganize a new "centrist" bloc which, in prac­ Soviet regime, a note which was eventually tice if not always in theory, effected a to be absorbed in Menshevik official doc­ rapprochement with the old Menshevik trine. In his article in Kharkovskaia mysl' Right. in 1919 and in an address to the Eighth Congress of Soviets in December, 1920, Dal­ This more conservative point of view was lin focused his fire on the economic policies to be sharply and extensively articulated by of the Soviet regime, predicting catastrophe Dallin during his stay in the United States. unless the "Utopian" and "arbitrary" fea­ Beginning in 1941, he publicized his anti- tures of war communism were promptly re­ Communist and anti-Soviet views among pudiated. Dallin's criticism was soon to be English-speaking readers through his con­ partially heeded with the adoption of the tributions to The New Leader, of which he New Economic Policy, but this new turn in became an associate editor. He also preached Soviet economic policy was to be accompa­ them in Russian Emigre circles, seeking not nied not by the democratization of political too successfully to pull the "old" and the life that he and his fellow Mensheviks "new" Soviet "emigrations" together in sup­ viewed as its logical and necessary extension port of a common anti-Bolshevik platform. but by a further tightening of political con­ The issue whether a genuine "democratic" trols: 1921, the year of the NEP, also coalition could be effected with the new brought the systematic suppression of all Soviet emigration deeply divided Russian Menshevik organizations and the wholesale emigre circles during these years, and con­ arrest of their leaders. Shortly after his re­ tributed to the eventual dissolution, in 1951, lease from a brief prison term, Dallin emi­ of the Zagranichnaia Delegatsiia. Eventu­ grated to Berlin where he joined the Zagra- ally, the conflicts over this issue were com­ nichnaia Delegatsiia RSDRP (Delegation of plicated by the claims to "national self- the RSDRP Abroad) and became one of the determination" advanced by a number of editors of its journal, Sotsialisticheskii vest- D.P. groups on behalf of national minorities nik (The Socialist Courier). At this time, in the Soviet Union. Ultimately, Dallin Dallin was already becoming openly doubt­ found himself in a lonely position in emigre ful about the major economic assumptions circles, for he was as sensitive to any im­ of orthodox Marxist doctrine and the likeli­ puted threat to the territorial integrity of hood of their confirmation in either Soviet the Soviet state as he was quick to discern or Western contemporary experience. These and to condemn any compromise with its doubts were articulated in After War and ruling political order. Revolution, a volume published in 1922, But the difficulties of life in the emigra­ and in several articles in Sotsialisticheskii tion did not distract David Iul'evich from vestnik. Although Dallin's revisionism drew the scholarly activity that dominated his News of the Profession 797 career in the United States. Between 1942 continued working on it until he could no and 1962, he contributed, largely under the longer hold his pen. To the end, he im­ auspices of the Yale University Press, no pressed all those who came into contact with less than eleven monographs on various him as a man of extraordinary will and aspects of Soviet domestic, and particularly muzhestvo. foreign, affairs: Soviet Russia's Foreign Pol­ icy, 1939-42 (1942), Russia and Postwar Eu­ rope (1943), The Real Soviet Russia (1944), The Big Three: The United States, Britain, ALEXANDER VOLODIMIROVICH and Russia (1945), (with Boris Nicolaevsky) JURCZENKO (1904-1962) Forced Labor in Soviet Russia (1947), Soviet Russia and the Far East (1948), The Rise of APPRECIATION CONTRIBUTED BY OLIVER J. Russia in Asia (1949), The New Soviet Em­ FREDERIKSEN, INSTITUTE FOR THE pire (1951), Soviet Espionage (1955), The STUDY OF THE USSR Changing World of Soviet Russia (1956), and Soviet Foreign Policy after Stalin (1961). The Institute for the Study of the USSR, The volumes on Soviet foreign affairs on in Munich, reports a serious loss through this list are too well known to warrant fur­ the untimely death on June 22, 1962, after ther description. But it is worth noting an automobile accident, of Professor Alex­ that, while many of them were published ander Volodimirovich Jurczenko, a member well before the vast documentary evidence of the Institute research staff and General in the archives of the German and other Assembly since 1954 and a prolific author foreign offices was opened to scholars, most in the field of Soviet constitutional law, par­ of Dallin's contemporary conclusions on So­ ticularly in regard to the status of the con­ viet foreign policy formation have weath­ stituent national republics. ered well. This observation may even be Professor Jurczenko was born November applied to the controversial study of Soviet 18, 1904, in Kiev, where he was graduated forced labor which Dallin published in col­ from the Faculty of Jurisprudence of the laboration with Boris Nicolaevsky in 1947, Kiev Institute of National Economy in 1926. well before the revelations of the post- In 1926-30 he served on two commissions of Stalin era put this darkest side of Stalin's the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences—one to rule under acute public glare. When it study the history of Ukrainian and West originally appeared, the work provoked con­ Russian law and the other to study Soviet siderable debate in the Western press, in law. He also made use of his training in trade union circles, and even at the U.N. economics as a staff member of the Econom­ where the late Andrei Vishinsky (himself a ics Department of the All-Union Scientific former Menshevik) denounced its authors as Research Institute for Tobacco Products. "complete idiots or scoundrels." Fifteen Meanwhile, from 1930 to 1941, he taught years later, Dallin's and Nicolaevsky's con­ courses in Ukrainian area studies. His ca­ temporary estimates of the extent of forced reer as a reseaicher and writer was chiefly labor in the Soviet Union (eight to twelve spent in the emigration after the Second millions of the male population alone) and World War, where he became in 1948 an of the economic rationale for its use still assistant professor and in 1961 full professor remain controversial. But the authors' de­ of current Ukrainian law in the Ukrainian scription of the monstrous growth that this Free University in Munich, by which he was institution underwent during the last two awarded the degree of Doctor of Laws in 1953. In 1954 he joined the research staff decades of Stalin's rule has found too many of the Institute for the Study of the USSR echoes, in recent Soviet writings, to continue as a Senior Researcher, a position he held to be the subject of legitimate doubt. at the time of his death. His numerous During his last two years Dallin fittingly articles on the Soviet state structure and devoted most of his energies to the work of the nationality problem in the USSR ap­ a project on the history of Menshevism peared chiefly in publications of the Insti­ sponsored by a number of American univer­ tute. He also played an active part in sities. He was writing a study of Menshev­ Ukrainian emigre political life. ism after the October Revolution, which promised to be perhaps the most important Professor Jurczenko's strong convictions of his historical contributions, when he suf­ were balanced by a steadfast search for fered his first stroke in the spring of 1961. scholarly accuracy and a delightful sense of David lul'evich was not allowed to finish humor, winning him universal respect and this study, although characteristically he friendship in academic circles. 798 Slavic Review

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