The Crawley Great Lives lecture on Mikhail Gorbachev, originally scheduled for January 29, has been rescheduled for tonight, Thursday, Jan. 31. The talk will be given by William Taubman, the Bertrand Snell Professor of Political Science Emeritus at Amherst College. He is the author of the just-published Gorbachev: His Life and Times. His biography, Khrushchev: The Man and His Era, won the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for biography.
This series is open to the public free of charge and no admission tickets are required. Programs begin at 7:30 p.m. in Dodd Auditorium in George Washington Hall. Each lecture concludes with an audience Q&A session with the speaker and a book-signing. For a list of the upcoming lectures, visit https://www.umw.edu/greatlives.
