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Release: March 30, 1995
Contact: Patricia Coen (609/258-5764)


Gorbachev's Press Spokesman to Speak on Soviet Reform and the Russian Future


Princeton, N.J.--Mikhail Gorbachev's former press spokesman,
Gennadi Gerasimov, will deliver a lecture titled "Did Soviet
Reform Leave a Legacy: Gorbachev and the Russian Future" at
Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and
International Affairs on Monday, April 10, at 4:30 p.m. in
Robertson Hall, Bowl 1.

Gerasimov, currently a distinguished visiting professor in the
Department of Political Science and Communications at Muhlenberg
College, has also been the editor-in-chief of the Moscow News,
editor of the World Marxist Review, and the ambassador to
Portugal and Lisbon. He is the author of more than 600 articles
on international, domestic, and social issues that have been
published in the political and popular world press. He has also
written articles on game theory, population explosion, and ecology
for academic journals.

His talk is being sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School and
Princeton's Program in Russian Studies.

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