Status of Spanish Studies in the Soviet Union

World War I, the Revolution and the Civil War gave this new subject a serious set-back. Military and social chaos injected disorder into the quiet academic retreats disrupting research, destroying libraries, scattering carefully trained pupils and painfully collected notes. In the 'twenties the problem of making a living forced many a potential scholar to turn from pure research to materially more rewarding professions. Consequently the 'thirties found only a small nucleus of zealots still pursuing their studies of the Golden Age under rather difficult conditions

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