The Big Show in Bololand by Hoover's Bertrand Patenaude is Co-winner of Prestigious 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize.News Editors/Business Editors/Education Writers STANFORD, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 11, 2003 The Big Show in Bololand: The American Relief Expedition to Soviet Russia in the Famine of 1921, written by Hoover Research Fellow Bertrand M. Patenaude, was named co-winner of the 2003 Marshall Shulman Book Prize. The award was made by the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies The American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies (AAASS), a nonprofit, non-political, scholarly society, is the leading private organization in the world dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about the former Soviet Union (including Eurasia) and Eastern and (AAASS AAASS Amercian Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies ), in conjunction with the Harriman Institute The Harriman Institute, the first academic center in the United States devoted to the interdisciplinary study of Russia and the Soviet Union, was founded at Columbia University in 1946, with the support of the Rockefeller Foundation, as the Russian Institute. at Columbia University Columbia University, mainly in New York City; founded 1754 as King's College by grant of King George II; first college in New York City, fifth oldest in the United States; one of the eight Ivy League institutions. , on November 22 in Toronto, Ontario, Canada. At that time, AAASS presented its annual awards for Distinguished Contributions to Slavic Studies Slavic studies or Slavistics is the academic field of area studies concerned with Slavic areas, Slavic languages, literature, history, and culture. Originally, a Slavist or Slavicist was primarily a linguist or philologist who researches Slavistics, a Slavic (AmE) or and five book prizes. The AAASS is the leading private, nonprofit organization Nonprofit Organization An association that is given tax-free status. Donations to a non-profit organization are often tax deductible as well. Notes: Examples of non-profit organizations are charities, hospitals and schools. dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about Russia, Central Eurasia, and Eastern and Central Europe. The Big Show in Bololand is based on materials in the Hoover Institution archives and was published by Stanford University Press. It portrays an American relief expedition to Soviet Russia in 1921 to mitigate the impact of the famine that killed millions. The award committee praised Patenaude's work for being "an outstanding example of lively and engaging prose, impressive historical research, and persuasive analysis of the diplomatic underpinnings and consequences of the rescue mission." Information about the book is available on the Hoover Institution web site at www-hoover.stanford.edu/pubaffairs/newsletter/02091/bololand.html and at the Stanford University Press web site at http://www.sup.org/cgi-bin/search/book_desc.cgi?book_id=4467%204493 Also winning the Marshall Shulman Book Prize was Ted Hopf, associate professor of political science at the Ohio State University Ohio State University, main campus at Columbus; land-grant and state supported; coeducational; chartered 1870, opened 1873 as Ohio Agricultural and Mechanical College, renamed 1878. There are also campuses at Lima, Mansfield, Marion, and Newark. for his monograph on the international behavior of the countries of the former Communist bloc, Social Construction of International Politics: Identities & Foreign Policies, Moscow, 1955 & 1999, published by Cornell University Press. Founded in 1948, the American Association for the Advancement of Slavic Studies, a nonprofit, nonpolitical, scholarly society, brings together over 3,000 scholars interested in the culture, history, and languages of the region's peoples, and economic and political systems, and gives coherence to a field that covers a multitude of academic disciplines and diverse interests. |
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