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Joseph Frank, Professor Emeritus of Slavic Languages and Literatures, died last week in Palo Alto. He was 94.

Frank came to Stanford from Princeton in 1985. He was best known for his magisterial biography of Dostoevsky, called …

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Maria Mammina, MA '11, and Zach Witlin, MA '12, have been awarded Alfa Fellowships for 2013. They are among a small handful of young professionals from the US and UK to receive the honor this year.

The Alfa Fellowship Program is a…

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With new access to KGB files, Stanford's Amir Weiner explores the differences between the "mind control" techniques employed by the KGB and domestic surveillance in today's Western-style democracies.

October marks the 11th anniversary of…

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CREEES is pleased to announce the creation of a new endowment, the Globalizing Eurasia Fund, made possible by a generous gift from an anonymous donor.

CREEES director Robert Crews said, "The inherited model of area studies…

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Prof. Nancy Kollmann's new monograph, Crime and Punishment in Early Modern Russia, was published by Cambridge University Press in October. She delivered a book talk at CREEES on November 2 before an audience of more than 60…