Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Michigan) records 1966-1999

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Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Michigan) records 1966-1999

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This collection contains administrative materials such as meeting minutes, departmental program information, correspondence and personnel files. A large bulk of the collection is dedicated to the numerous external and internal reviews of the department from 1975 to 1994. The collection also includes publications and publicity, as well as personal correspondence, and details relating to a visit by Joseph Brodsky.

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University of Michigan. Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures.

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Department was officially established as Slavic Languages and Literatures in 1952 but dates back to 1910. From the description of Dept. of Slavic Languages and Literatures (University of Michigan) records, 1960-2007. (University of Michigan). WorldCat record id: 739977677 The Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures sprang from the Department of Russian Languages and Literatures. This department was established in 1910 in response to a University Bulletin ...

Brodsky, Joseph, 1940-1996

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Iosif Alexandrovich Brodsky (Joseph Brodsky) (1940-1996), a Russian poet, was born May 24, 1940 in Leningrad, USSR (St. Petersburg, Russia) to Jewish parents. He left school at the age of fifteen to study independently, teaching himself English and Polish. In 1964 he was arrested by Soviet authorities on charges of "social parasitism" and sentenced to five years of hard labor on a state farm near the Arctic Circle. He was released after serving less than two years of his sentence, but in 1972 he...