This third NEH institute organized by The New York Public Library (NYPL) will bring together 25 university teaching faculty, curators, and senior bibliographers, and ten Session Leaders to consider, investigate, and reflect upon the implications of the various forms of cultural engagement between the United States and the Russian Empire/Soviet Union from the late 19^th century to the beginning of the 1930s.  Inter alia, the following broad problems will be considered over a three week period: the framework of political, diplomatic, commercial and scientific relations, including the impact of mass immigration from the Russian Empire; interactions in the areas of literature, libraries and book culture, publishing and journalism; the fine and performing arts; and finally, the field of inter-confessional religious relations.

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