Polish Encounters, Russian Identity

Acknowledgments

vii acknowledgments This publication is the result of many efforts and sources of support. We would like to mention first of all the assistance of the staff of the Russian and East European Institute (REEI) at Indiana University, especially the work of Assistant Director and Outreach Coordinator Denise Gardiner, who did much of the organizational preparation for the conference that led to this volume. Financial support came from REEI, principally through its Department of Education Title VI grant, and from the Polish Studies Center and the Office of International Programs at Indiana University. The dean of the Humanities Division at the University of Chicago and the Indiana University Russian and East European Institute also contributed small subsidies toward the publication of the volume. We are grateful for the support of these people and offices. In addition to the intellectual contributions of each of the authors in this work, we would like to thank Alexander Dolinin for his advice on the program of the conference and Anna Lisa Crone, Beth Holmgren, Marci Shore, and Nina Perlina for reading and commenting on the introduction. We are grateful , too, to Janet Rabinowitch of Indiana University Press, who gave us important advice and encouragement on the project from its very beginning to the final edits. DR and BS Polish Encounters, Russian Identity ...