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The Baltic in East European Studies at American Universities1

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

Andris Skreija*
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Nebraska at Omaha

Extract

The student and scholar interested in Baltic studies face obstacles and difficulties not encountered in more popular fields. First, and at the root of many of the problems, is that the area is not well known to the average scholar in North America, to say nothing of the general public. This, among other things, means that funding, resources and scholarly respectability are to a large degree lacking.

Type
Research Article
Copyright
Copyright © Association for the Study of Nationalities of Eastern Europe, 1972 

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