RAILS Update

[Benjamin Rifkin]

> Dear SEELANGers:
>
> The RAILS Project at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
> (http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/rails) <http://imp.lss.wisc.edu/rails)>  will be
> releasing 9 more lessons, based on Russian documentary films, soon.  However,
> due to copyright restrictions imposed by Mosfilm, these lessons will be
> available only to those North American Institutions who own copies of the
> documentary films on which these lessons are based.
>
> This message is designed to give those of you interested in using the lessons
> in the fall 2005 semester lead time to order the films you will need to have:
>
> Solovky Power / Vlast' solovetskaia (1988).  Directed by Marina Goldovskaia,
> this film presents a history of the prison / concentration camp on the Solovky
> Islands and features interviews with survivors, including Dmitrii Likhachev,
> and a camp guard, as well as archival documentary footage.
>
> The Children of Ivan Kuz'mich / Deti Ivana Kuz'micha (1994).  Directed by
> Marina Goldovskaia, this film tells the story of a remarkable man, Ivan
> Kuz'mich Novikov, who was the principal of Moscow's School No. 110 during the
> great terror.  He protected the children in his school, including Svetlana
> Bukharina, from the world just beyond the classroom walls.  The film features
> interviews with people who attended the school as children during the Terror.
> (Novikov himself died before the film was made.)  The film also includes
> archival documentary footage.
>
> These two films are available for purchase from GoldFilms:

        Website: www.goldfilms.org
        Email: goldfilms at adelphia.net
> Phone: 310-476-0167
> Fax: 310-476-0267


> We are sorry, but due to our permission agreement with the copyright holder of
> these films, the lessons for these films will not be available for individual
> license or review.  We are also unable to distribute these lessons to
> institutions outside North America for the same reason.  We will post to our
> website a slideshow with sample screens from these lessons when they are
> available (some time in late May or early June); the slideshow will be "open
> to the public."
>
> The remaining 12 lessons for the RAILS project will be based on interviews
> with prominent Russians, including Irina Khakamada, and will be available for
> dissemination around the world.  These lessons will be completed by June 2006
> and will be ready for adoption for the 2006-2007 academic year.
>
> Sincerely,
>
> Benjamin Rifkin
> Principal Investigator for the RAILS Project

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Benjamin Rifkin
University of Wisconsin-Madison

Professor and Chair, Slavic Dept.
1432 Van Hise, 1220 Linden Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-1623; Fax (608) 265-2814
http://polyglot.lss.wisc.edu/slavic

Director, Title VI Center for Russia, E. Europe & Central Asia (CREECA)
210 Ingraham Hall, 1550 Observatory Dr.
Madison, WI 53706 USA
(608) 262-3379; Fax (608) 890-0267
http://www.wisc.edu/creeca






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