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Katrina vanden Heuvel, editor of The Nation, is one of the guests who will visit campus as part of the “Revisiting the Fall of the Soviet Union” symposium Oct. 13-14.

The School of Journalism is one of the sponsors of the event, organized by the Russian and East European Institute. In addition to vanden Heuvel, speakers include scholar of Soviet politics Stephen Cohen; Jack Matlock, U.S. ambassador to the Soviet Union from 1987 to 1991; and other speakers from IU and Russia.

Vanden Heuvel has been editor of The Nation since 1995 and publisher since 2005. She has visited IU and the School of Journalism in the past, and will spend some time while on campus talking to the Indiana Daily Student staff.

During the conference, panelists will discuss the Soviet Union’s rapid implosion in 1991 from superpower to 15 brand new states, covering topics such as the country’s history leading up to the fall, the causes of the fall itself and effects on current media and politics.

Vanden Heuvel and Nadezhda Azhgikhina of the Russian Union of Journalists are scheduled as panelists for Media and Politics in Contemporary Russia Oct. 14.


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