The Soviet Union

Abstract

During the eleven years from 1974 to 1985 I lived in the Soviet Union for a total of about two years and Ann for about three. In 1974– 1975 my post-doctoral year in Moscow was arranged through the International Research and Exchanges Board (IREX). Ann and I lived in a dormitory in Zone V of the gigantic wedding-cake style building of Moscow State University. We returned for the spring semester of 1978, this time on the National Academy of Sciences — Soviet Academy of Sciences exchange program; and in 1985 we again spent the spring in Moscow, I on the NAS exchange and Ann on IREX. In addition, Ann lived in Leningrad during the academic year 1981–1982 (with one month in Moscow) on IREX and Fulbright grants; and on about a half dozen occasions between 1973 and 1989 one or both of us made visits of one to several weeks. Finally, in January 1992 Ann took a group of students on a study tour of the then-collapsing Soviet Union.