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Recent efforts to modernize the USSR's ecomomy face significant resistance from government officials and entrenched interest groups, a noted Soviet economist told an audience of approximately 60 people in Coolidge Hall yesterday...
Shmelyov is participating in a program organized by the Russian Research Center that brings Soviet economists to Harvard to discuss contemporary economic issues in the USSR...
Changes within the Reagan Administration have also moderated the Administration's insistence on secrecy. A number of hard-line policy makers have left the Administration, and the prospect of a further U.S.-USSR arms treaty has led President Reagan and other officials to tone down their anti-Soviet rhetoric...
During spring break, the 12 undergraduates, two graduate students and one Harvard professor traveled to Moscow, Kiev and Lenningrad in the USSR and Prague in Czechoslovakia. A group of 12 Soviet students will come to the United States this fall. Their travels during the second part of this year's program will include visits to New York, Boston and Washington...
Surrounded by sometimes contradictory, some-times compatible impressions of the USSR, we found ourselves grappling with these disparate images of the "real" Soviet Union in an effort to define for ourselves the true nature of Soviet society. In our struggle to discern what was real and what was facade, what was planned and what was spontaneous, we naturally found ourselves confronting the second question: What about perestroika and glasnost? Could they really work...