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The E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues presented the fourth speaker of its 2001-2002 schedule, Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev,
former president of the Soviet Union, on the morning of March 14, 2002 in the Lied Center for Performing Arts.
Gorbachev's lecture was titled "Russia: Retrospect and Prospect."
Thompson
Forum Home
2001-2002
Schedule
free and open to the public; all events in Lied
Center for Performing Arts, 12th & R Streets,
Lincoln, NE, except Terrorism Panel, in Kimball
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Andrew Nathan
"Is It Any of Our Business?"
Thursday, April 11, 3:30pm
Mikhail Gorbachev
"Russia: Retrospect and Prospect"
Thursday, March 14, 10:30am
Anna Rosmus
"Growing Up Where Hitler Lived"
Thursday, March 7, 3:30pm
Terrorism Panel
Featuring United States Senator Chuck Hagel, with
Thomas Gouttiere, Steven Hinrichs, Patrice McMahon
and Peter Tomsen
Friday, Nov. 2, 2-4pm
Meave Leakey
"The Search and Discovery of Our Earliest Ancestors"
Monday, Sept. 24, 3:30pm
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The webcast of Gorbachev's Thompson Forum is available for online viewing.
Mikhail Sergeyevich Gorbachev was leader
of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, the last leader of that
country and the key figure in the liberalization and subsequent
disintegration of Soviet and Eastern European Communism. His
policies eased tensions with the West and helped bring an end
to the Cold War.
Gorbachev streamlined and decentralized the oppressive
system he inherited in the Soviet Union. In an effort to secure
relations with the West, Gorbachev signed two broad disarmament
pacts and ended Communist rule in Eastern Europe. As a result
of his extraordinary achievements, Gorbachev won the 1990 Nobel
Peace Prize, the Orders of Lenin, the Red Banner of Labor, and
the Badge of Honor.
In 1992, he became president of the Gorbachev Foundation, a
non-profit, non-partisan educational foundation that addresses
the challenges of the post-Cold War world by revisioning global
priorities. He also founded Green Cross International, a non-governmental
environmental group working to clean up military toxins, create
global ecological law and foster a change in environmental values.
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About Mikhail Gorbachev >
In its fourteen-year history, the E.N. Thompson Forum on World
Issues has established itself as one of the preeminent speakers
series in higher education. Past Thompson Forum events have
featured, among many others: Holocaust survivor and peace activist
Elie Weisel; Camelia Sadat, the daughter of Anwar Sadat and
founder of the Sadat Peace Institute; Maki Mandela, daughter
of the former South African president; the Rev. Peter Gomes,
Plummer Professor of Christian Morals at Harvard University;
Hedrick Smith, journalist and expert on the former Soviet Union;
Kennedy Administration Secretary of Defense Robert MacNamara;
and Archbishop Desmond Tutu.
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