Russian philology
Department of Russian Literature and Modern Language Studies in 1948. Prof. Isacenko was
still holding the leading post in 1950 when the Department of Russian Language and
Literature came into being.
In 1955, when Prof. A. V. Isacenko left Bratislava for Olomouc, the department already had
ten full-time teachers.
Russian studies continued developing in the second half of the 1950s and in the 1960s when
Prof. A. V. Isacenko was replaced first by Assoc. Prof. . urovic (1955-1959) and then by
Assoc. Prof. J. Kopanicák (1959-1970).
The political turnaround in 1989, of course, also had impact on the evolution of Russian
studies as an academic discipline. The department found itself in a peculiar situation. On the
one hand, it represented one of the most developed philological disciplines with a large
personnel and material base; on the other hand, the factors that had made Russian studies one
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