Polish-Russian Dialogue in the United States as Exemplified by Wacław Lednicki’s Circle
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https://doi.org/10.12775/SDR.2024.EN8.02Keywords
Russia, Poland, émigré community, exile, LednickiAbstract
The article is devoted to Professor Wacław Lednicki’s relations with the Russian émigré community. Lednicki was one of the pre-eminent Polish Slavists, distinguished for his promotion of Polish literature in the United States, where he gained a respectable position in the academic community. Although his worldview was liberal, he was, contrary to popular belief, aware of the severe obstacles that made an understanding with the Russians impossible. It may seem surprising, but he shared the views of Prof. Jan Kucharzewski and Prof. Marian Zdziechowski (from his late period) on Russian history.
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Archiwum Akt Nowych (Central Archives of Modern Records):
Hoover Institution, Embassy of the Republic of Poland in the United States;
Archiwum Instytutu Literackiego Kultura;
Korespondencja Redakcji;
Biblioteka Jagiellońska Dział Rękopisów;
Archiwum Wiktora Weintrauba;
Biblioteka Polska w Paryżu;
Wacław Grzybowski;
Columbia University Library Bakhmeteff Archive;
Michail Karpovich Collection;
Hoover Institution Library & Archive;
B.I. Nicolaevsky Collection.
Polish Institute of Arts & Sciences of America: Wacław Lednicki Papers.
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