France, 1935
specialist in Russian dissident literature

Georges Nivat

Georges Nivat is a Slavist and translator. He studied Russian and English at the Sorbonne, Oxford and the Moscow State University. He then became a researcher at Harvard and Stanford, and in 1992 was made Professor of Slavic Studies at the University of Geneva. Nivat is honorary president of the ‘Rencontres internationales de Genève’ and between 1996 and 2000 led the European Institute in Geneva. His main work is a trilogy on Russian culture: Vers la fin du mythe russe (1982), Russie-Europe, la fin du schisme (1988) and Vivre en russe (2007).

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Journal Nexus

Nexus 50. Europees humanisme in fragmenten

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