Russian Social Studies and Humanities Internet Network

I am pleased to announce the formation of the Russian Social Sciences and Humanities Network, RSSH.Net. The network is housed at Moscow Lomonosov State University in Russia, the home of its Executive Director Dr. Irina Garskova, [email protected]. Within the next few weeks, RSSH.Net will offer a series of scholarly lists which will address Russian topics in the Russian language. A second announcement will provide the specific list "launch" dates and subscription instructions.

The subjects of the first five lists and their editors are:

• Arts and the Internet: George Maevski (Moscow Lomonosov State University)
• Computerized Linguistics: Anatoly Polikarpov (Moscow Lomonosov State University)
• Economic History: Leonid I. Borodkin (Moscow Lomonosov State University)
• Historical Demography: Vladimir Vladimirov (Altai State University, Barnaul)
• Russian Modern Economics: Vladimir Tcherniak (Moscow Lomonosov State University)

The RSSH.Net objective is to promote use of the Internet as a tool for Russian scholarship, and list correspondence will be in the Russian language. Participation is not limited to Russia: scholars world-wide are encouraged to offer advice or to become involved in RSSH.Net by subscribing to lists, serving as editorial board members, recommending topics for lists, and serving as list editors.

RSSH.Net sponsors are The Miami University Walter G. Havighurst Foundation, EH.Net, and Project Harmony, through a grant from USIA.

EH.Net is the Economic History Services web server (www.eh.net) and a network of lists in the field. I am the Executive Director of Eh.Net. For the 18 months we have been working to create in Russia a network similar to ours and H-net.

The idea for RSSH.Net started in March 1998, when I was invited by Leonid Borodkin, President of the Russian Association for History and Computing and Professor of History at Moscow State University, to make a presentation at their conference about EH.Net Economic History Services web server and network of lists. As a result of that presentation, Borodkin and I began collaborating to establish a similar network of lists for Russian scholarship and teaching. EH.Net and H-Net will serve as models and provide administrative, technical, and editorial training and support for this new network.

Please address questions or messages of interest in participating in this new network to me.

Thank you.

Samuel H. Williamson
Executive Director EH.Net
[email protected]

July 30, 1999

Last updated:    August 1999

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