The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies
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美国斯拉夫研究促进会
DOI：
10.1080/00085006.1965.11417886
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1965
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J. Berliner
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作者：
J. Berliner
有点不幸的是，美国斯拉夫研究促进会（AAASS）的创始人没有在加拿大度过更多的时间。如果他们这样做了，这篇文章就不必以我觉得有义务做的尴尬解释开始了。当然，我们不是美国协会，正如我们的一些加拿大朋友温和地提醒我们的那样。我们只是美国协会。然而，如果我们称自己为美国斯拉夫研究协会，我们的首字母缩写将使其他人不可能认真对待我们。我相信我们的加拿大同事会理解，以我们的名义出现沙文主义只是为了避免更糟糕的命运。美国战后斯拉夫研究的历史始于许多大学（如哈佛、哥伦比亚和华盛顿大学）成立地区研究中心和研究机构。福特基金会、卡内基公司和其他私人基金会在为研究生学习和研究提供财政资源方面发挥了核心作用。地区学习和研究中心的数量不断增加，到50年代中期，斯拉夫专家已经开始在美国历史协会、美国政治学协会等学术团体中形成规模可观的核心小组。联合的原则就是这样，也许这些团体不可避免地应该组织起来，以促进他们的共同利益。到了50年代后期，历史学家、政治学家、经济学家、地理学家以及语言和文学界人士都成立了这样的组织。战后斯拉夫研究的一个显著特点是它的跨学科性质。在研究生学习和研究中，斯拉夫研究各个领域的学者共同努力，达到了在一般学术界相当不寻常的程度。这种松散的联系最终随着1961年AAASS的成立而正式化。
IT IS MILDLY UNFORTUNATE that the founders of the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS) had not spent more time in Canada. Had they done so, this article need not have begun with the awkward explanation I feel obliged to make. We are, of course, not the American association, as some of our Canadian friends have gently reminded us. We are simply the United States association. Had we called ourselves the United States Association for Slavic Studies, however, our initials would have been such as to make it impossible for others to take us seriously. I trust our Canadian colleagues will appreciate that the appearance of chauvinism in our name was simply a device to avoid a worse fate. The history of post-war Slavic studies in the United States began with the organization of area studies centres and research institutes at a number of universities, such as Harvard, Columbia, and the University of Washington. A central role was played by the Ford Foundation, the Carnegie Corporation, and other private foundations in providing the financial resources for the support of graduate study and research. The number of area study and research centres grew, and by the mid-fifties the Slavic specialists had begun to constitute sizable caucuses in such scholarly societies as the American Historical Association, the American Political Science Association, and others. The principles of association being what they are, it was perhaps inevitable that these groups should organize to promote their common interests. By the late'fifties, such organizations had been formed by the historians, political scientists, economists, geographers, and the language and literature people.One of the distinctive features of the post-war effiorescence of Slavic studies was its inter-disciplinary character. In both graduate study and research, scholars in the various fields of Slavic studies worked together to a degree that was quite unusual in the general world of scholarship. This loose association was eventually formalized with the establishment of the AAASS in 1961.