By ALEXANDER DOLITSKY In the Spring of 1985, I was a visiting scholar at the Slavic Reference Services of Russian, East European, and Eurasian Center of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Evidently, this Center is known for the largest collection of the Slavic primary and secondary sources in the United States and, I was told, presumably … Continue reading Alexander Dolitsky: The beginnings of Alaska-Soviet relations happened in a Sitka living room