Slavic-Eurasian Research Center
Slavic-Eurasian Research Center (SRC) is a research institute at Hokkaido University in Sapporo, Japan. It studies the countries of the former Soviet Union and other post-communist states across Eurasia and the people who live there.
The center has its roots in the Cold War. In 1953, Hokkaido University decided to coordinate research on Soviet and communist topics. On June 1, 1955, the group became the Slavic Institute within the Faculty of Law. On April 1, 1978, it became independent and was renamed the Slavic Research Center (SRC). After the collapse of communism and the Soviet Union, the center was renamed the Slavic-Eurasian Research Center on April 1, 2014.
Today the SRC conducts research across several divisions. In 2018, it collaborated with 27 universities and research institutes across Eurasia. The center also runs a Foreign Visitors Fellowship Program; since 1978 it has hosted many visiting scholars, including Norman Davies, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Tomasz Kamusella, Dariusz Kołodziejczyk, Stephen Kotkin, Vladislav Krasnov, Taras Kuzio, David Marples, Vojtech Mastny, Alexander Nekrich, Sabrina Ramet, Jadwiga Staniszkis, and Jerzy Tomaszewski.
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