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Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation
Edited by Rocío G. Sumillera, Jan Surman and Katharina Kühn
[Benjamins Translation Library 154] 2020
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Chapter 12
An (imagined) community

The Translation Project in the Social Sciences and its impact on the scientific community in post-Soviet Russia

| National Research University Higher School of Economics - HSE Moscow

Conducted from 1996 to 2002, the project Translation Literature in the Social Sciences changed the face of post-Soviet Russian academia. Not only did it result in the translation of more than 400 key publications in human and social sciences, but it also created a community of scholars and translators specialising in social sciences and humanities, many of whom have continued shaping the Russian academic landscape until today. This chapter discusses the aims, scope and results of the translation project, as well as the ramifications that it had for contemporary academia. Particular attention is paid to the transformation and changing praxis of translations from Soviet to post-Soviet Russia.

Keywords: Post-Soviet Russia, human sciences, social sciences, the Translation Project, Soros Foundation
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.The TP through the lense of Translation Studies
  • 3.Soviet translations of scholarly literature
  • 4.Forming a community of translators
  • 5.Scholarly-linguistic problems
  • 6.Conclusion
  • Acknowledgment
  • Notes
  • References
Published online: 29 October 2020
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