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Contact: Patricia Coen (609) 258-5764 Date: Date: Nov. 13, 1996


Former Ambassador to Russia Jack Matlock to Speak at Princeton

Princeton, N.J.--Jack Matlock, U.S. ambassador to Moscow during the Gorbachev period, will deliver the inaugural Cyril Black Lecture, on "Russia: Where to Next?" at Princeton University's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs on Tuesday, Nov. 26, at 4:30 p.m. in Bowl 6, Robertson Hall.

Matlock, currently the Kathryn and Shelby Cullom Davis Professor in the Practice of International Diplomacy at Columbia University, is the author of the recently published Autopsy on an Empire: The American Ambassador's Account of the Collapse of the Soviet Union (Random House). He had been director of Soviet Affairs on the National Security Council staff (1983 87) and U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union (1987 91). As President Ronald Reagan's go-between with the Soviet leadership, Matlock had a first-hand look at the collapse of the Soviet Union. He had traveled widely in the Soviet Union and had witnessed the discontent in the republics where the dissolution of the Soviet Union began.

Matlock's lecture is the first in a series of annual Cyril Black lectures. Black was a member of Princeton's faculty for 47 years, from 1939 until his retirement in 1986, and director of its Center of International Studies for 17 years, from 1968 to 1985. He was a distinguished academic who was preeminent in the fields of Russian history and of modernization studies.

Matlock's lecture is sponsored by the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, the Center of International Studies, and the Russian Studies Program.

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