Slonim, Marc
SLONIM, MARC
SLONIM, MARC (Marc Lvovich ; 1894–1976), literary scholar. A member of the 1917 Russian Constituent Assembly, Slonim later moved to Prague, where he edited an émigré periodical (1922–32), and settled in the U.S. in 1941. He taught at Sarah Lawrence College, Bronxville, from 1943 onward, becoming the director of foreign studies there in 1962 and European consultant for foreign studies in 1968. His works include The Epic of Russian Literature… (1950), Modern Russian Literature from Chekhov to the Present (1953), and Soviet Literature (1964, 1967).
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