WALTER LAQUEUR began his work in the field of Soviet studies in 1954 as the founding editor of the foreign policy journal Survey. In the early 1990s, he provided an authoritative account of the causes leading to the Soviet Union’s collapse (The Long Road to Freedom: Russia and Glasnost) and, two years later, correctly predicted Russia’s move toward right-wing nationalism (Black Hundred: The Rise of the Extreme Right in Russia). For thirty years, Laqueur served as director of the Institute of Contemporary History in London and chairman of the International Research Council of the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He has held teaching positions at Brandeis, Georgetown, and Harvard universities as well as the University of Chicago. He is the author of more than twenty-five books and hundreds of articles, and his writing has been praised by Henry A. Kissinger, Zbigniew Brzezinski, the late James Schlesinger, and many other leading figures in American foreign policy. You can sign up for email updates here.