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A visit to his Wilson Center office, for example, seldom fails to yield an urgent lecture on the desperate state of Russian society, punctuated by anecdotes, asides, and quips while supporting charts and graphs chug from his computer printer and he reaches into the neat stacks of documents piled high almost everywhere. There! he says excitedly, jabbing a finger at a table surrounded by swirling Cyrillic text. There are the numbers that prove his point. In Feshbach’s presence, it is absolutely essential that you get his point. People have been getting Murray Feshbach’s point for several decades: Politicians, government officials, journalists, and others with an interest in things Russian regularly consult him. After arriving at the U.S. Bureau of the Census in 1957, he joined a small group of government and academic analysts who explored the inner life of the Soviet Union, ferreting out bits of information from obscure sources and personal contacts to construct a statistical montage of the country’s vital signs. (Gathering data became much easier after the death of communism, he says, but things have become “a little less better” in recent years.) By the 1970s, this research was pointing to unexpected weaknesses in the Soviet system. In 1980, Feshbach and Christopher Davis dropped a bombshell when they documented a sharp rise in Soviet infant mortality. Later, after he had moved on to Georgetown University, word filtered back from Soviet sources that the revelation had saved thousands of infant lives. Feshbach grows unaccus- tomedly somber when he tells the story. It was, he says, his proudest moment. Feshbach’s fresh warning about the Russian condition in this issue represents a return in more than one respect. We first published his work 20 years ago, after he spent a year as a Wilson Center Fellow. It is a delight to have him back at the Center, now as a Senior Scholar, and in our pages as well. Editor: Steven Lagerfeld The Wilson Quarterly (ISSN-0363-3276) is published in Deputy Editor: James M. Morris January (Winter), April (Spring), July (Summer), and Managing Editor: James H. Carman October (Autumn) by the Woodrow Wilson International Senior Editor: Robert K. Landers Center for Scholars at One Woodrow Wilson Plaza, 1300 Literary Editor: Stephen Bates Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20004–3027. Associate Editor: Justine A. Kwiatkowski Complete article index now available online at Editors at Large: Ann Hulbert, Jay Tolson http://wwics.si.edu/WQ/WEBIND.HTM. Subscriptions: Copy Editor: Vincent Ercolano one year, $24; two years, $43. 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