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Date: Mon, 05 Apr 2004
From: "JOSEPH DRESEN" <DRESENJO@WWIC.SI.EDU>
Subject: event announcement

Woodrow Wilson Center Event Announcement
Book Discussion: Russia in Search of Itself
James H. Billington
Librarian of Congress and former Director of the Woodrow Wilson Center
Tuesday, April 20, 2004
4:00 to 5:00 p.m.
Woodrow Wilson Center, 6th Floor, Joseph H. and Claire Flom Auditorium
A reception and book signing will follow this event in the 6th floor Board Room.

In the turbulent decade since the collapse of the Soviet Union, conditions have worsened considerably for many Russians, and a wide-ranging debate has raged over the nature and destiny of their country. In Russia in Search of Itself, James H. Billington, the Librarian of Congress and a noted expert on Russia, examines the efforts of a proud but troubled nation to find a post-Soviet identity.

James H. Billington has been the Librarian of Congress since 1987. The originator and guiding force of two major Russian-American bipartisan initiatives in Congress in the 1990s­Meeting of the Frontiers, a bilingual, online educational library; and the Open World Program, which has brought more than 7,500 emerging young Russian leaders to America­he also co-founded the Kennan Institute for Advanced Russian Studies in 1974 as director of the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars. A foreign member of the Russian Academy of Sciences, he is the author of five books on Russia, including, most recently, Russia Transformed and The Face of Russia.

Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.

To RSVP acceptance or to receive further information, call Maria-Stella Gatzoulis at 202-691-4188. Please allow time on arrival at the building for routine security procedures. A photo ID is required.

THE WOODROW WILSON CENTER AT THE RONALD REAGAN BUILDING
One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Pennsylvania Ave., NW (Federal Triangle stop on Blue/Orange Line).

For directions to the Woodrow Wilson Center, please consult our website at
www.wilsoncenter.org/directions.