To the Other Shore

We are pleased to print below two excerpts from a journal that Daniel Bell wrote after his trip to the Soviet Union last spring. The first excerpt describes a lecture he gave at the Leningrad State University.—Eds.

In the afternoon, we set out for Leningrad State University. I had been scheduled to speak to the faculty and staff of the schools of social sciences, but when some posters had gone up advertising the talk, graduate students and research students had clamored to be ...