Академические издания в США в 1860–1940 гг. (к вопросу о влиянии Первой мировой войны на развитие российско-американских культурных связей)
Publications of the Russian Academy of Sciences in the United States in 1860–1940 (The Effect of World War I on the development of Russian-American cu

Summary/Abstract: The article is devoted to the Academy of Sciences’ scientific communication with American institutions. By the 1880-s book exchanges had become constant and varied, had been governed by state authorities. The World War I and Revolution in Russia destroyed traditional book exchange channels. Scientific centers retained in the Limitrophe countries began playing an important role in academic publications dissemination. In June 1921 about 4 000 volumes of them (1913–1921) were delivered by A.V. Igelstremom from St. Petersburg to Helsinki. In the early years of the Soviet state he became one of the main agents of American research centers (Library of Congress, Hoover Institute, Columbia University) in the region. New York Public Library also had difficulties purchasing new Academy of Sciences publications. However due to their public status it had more freedom in selecting foreign partners. In the early 1920-s it established long-term book exchange programs with having survived Russian scientific institutions. In 1923–1924 its Slavic Department director A. Yarmolinsky visited Riga, Soviet Russia and Eastern Ukraine bringing back 9 000 volumes. Academicians’ trips to the United States, Soviet scientists’ participation in scientific congresses conducted in America contributed to the development of bilateral cooperation. Official projects increased after diplomatic recognition of the USSR in 1933. Since then American scientific institutions regularly received Academy of Sciences’ publications. Sovietization of the Academy of Sciences, arrests, expulsion and dismissal of its many staff members, strengthening of censorship and ideological control in the USSR negatively affected the development of Russian-American book exchange programs during that period.

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