Gaut, Neff published in historical journal

Greg Gaut, Department of History, and co-author Marsha Neff, have published the article “Red Stars over Minnesota” in the Winter 2009/2020 issue of Minnesota History, the quarterly journal of the Minnesota Historical Society. The article describes the visit of Mikhail and Raisa Gorbachev to the Twin Cities on June 3, 1990.

They analyze the preparation, the day itself, and the aftermath, and argue that the entire episode reveals much about how optimistic many people were in 1990 about the possibilities for international cooperation, and how those hopes have mostly proved to be illusory. The article is a kind of snapshot about how much has changed in two decades. To read more, go to www.mnhs.org/market/mhspress/minnesotahistory/index.html. A link will be posted shortly.