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According to Wachtel, it was an attempt to “promote an understanding of Soviet history” to better understand Russian politics of the present day. Wachtel discussed the history of former Soviet citi- zens who were coerced to give false testimony at the 1937 Moscow show trial and were later killed while in government custody. He revealed how historians of Rus- sia’s international archives were very cooperative when he contacted them. His research on the show trail culminates in his novel, Stalin’s Witnesses, where Wachtel uses the point of view of one of the witnesses as a “tour guide” of the period. CSUF political science professor Alexei Shevchenko, Ph.D., lectured about how the choices of former Soviet Union President Mikhail Gorbachev were influenced by ROBERT HUSKEY / Daily Titan the international status of the USSR. Sophomores Sydney Moody (left) and Kaitlyn Rissen (right) slide down an artificial snow bank at ASI’s annual Snow Day event in the Quad Thursday. 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