The Language of Pushkin, the Language of Putin: Teaching Russian in the United States
Journal: American Journal of Education and Practice
Year: 2023

Russian language courses and programs in the United States emerged and developed in contexts which were characterized by the conflicting ideologies and politics of the United States and the Soviet Union (and, more recently, the Russian Federation). In addition, such programs have faced a number of other challenges, some of which are related to world language education in the U.S. context more generally, while others are language-specific and concerned only with Russian as a foreign language. Thi