Ebook: Essays on Revolutionary Culture and Stalinism

The articles selected for publication in this volume were chosen from
among those presented at the Third World Congress for Soviet and East
European Studies held in Washington, D.C., from 30 October to 4
November 1985. The Congress, which was sponsored by the
International Committee for Soviet and East European Studies and the
American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, attracted
over 3,000 scholars from forty-one countries. This figure represents a
two-fold increase over the number of delegates who attended either the
First Congress in Banff, Canada, in 1974 or the Second Congress in
Garmisch-Partenkirchen in 1980 and reflects the revival of Slavic studies
throughout the world.
More than 600 papers were formally presented or distributed at the
Washington Congress. From among the substantial number submitted
for possible publication in this series, the Editorial Committee has
selected 160 to appear in fifteen volumes. Five volumes are being
published in the social sciences; three by Cambridge University Press and
two by Lynne Rienner Publishers. Five volumes devoted to history and
literature are being published by Slavica Publishers while the remaining
five in education, law, library science, linguistics and Slovene studies are
appearing as part of established series or as special issues of scholarly
journals. The titles of all these publications will be found at the end of
this volume.