Wilson Center Experts
Lynn Visson
Kennan Institute
Expertise:
Russia and Eurasia
; Russia
Affiliation:
Visiting Adjunct Professor and Visiting Associate, Monterey Graduate School Institute of Translation and Interpretation, retired UN interpreter and co-compiler of Boris Rabbot: An Unheeded Voice of the 1960s
Wilson Center Project(s):
A Russian-English Simultaneous interpretation textbook
Term:
Jan 01, 1989
Jan 31, 1989
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Boris Rabbot, a journalist and sociologist, was in the vanguard of the pre-perestroika "shestidesiatniks," influential intellectuals and party leaders who vigorously advocated a policy of liberalization within the Soviet system. His widow, Lynn Visson, Visiting Adjunct Professor and Visiting Associate, Monterey Graduate School Institute of Translation and Interpretation, retired UN interpreter and co-compiler of "Boris Rabbot: An Unheeded Voice of the 1960s," discussed how he and the intellectuals of his generation presaged the reformers of the Gorbachev era.