Monthly Archives: February 2018

My first visit to the Soviet Union was in the summer of 1959. At that time I was a graduate student in Harvard’s Russian Studies program, and I received my M.A. the next year. I had already worked for a year at the Washington Evening Star, then one of the leading afternoon newspapers in the country, but because of my interest in Soviet affairs, fanned by Stalin’s death just six years earlier, I decided to go to graduate school. While…..

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