Translation in Knowledge, Knowledge in Translation

Conducted from 1996 to 2002, the project Translation Literature in the Social Sciences changed the face of post-Soviet Russian academia. Not only did it result in the translation of more than 400 key publications in human and social sciences, but it also created a community of scholars and translators specialising in social sciences and humanities, many of whom have continued shaping the Russian academic landscape until today. This chapter discusses the aims, scope and results of the translation