April 19, 2002

Russian Students Go Online to Experience American Political Science

By BROCK READ

"The Soviet Union may have disappeared into history 10 years ago," says Coit D. Blacker, deputy director of Stanford University's Institute for International Studies, but "the damage inflicted upon the social sciences and humanities in Russia was profound." Through a Stanford program, Mr. Blacker and his colleagues are attempting to repair some of the damage -- by giving Russian students a taste of an American political-science classroom.

Last fall, the university's Initiative on