The Washington Post, September 27th, 1988
The first traveling Soviet book exhibit, "The U.S.S.R.: Perestroika and Glasnost," premiered at the Martin Luther King Memorial Library this past week-the inaugural stop in its three-city tour. The 1,000-book display is the Soviet half of the first official Soviet-American book exchange and is sponsored by the U.S. Information Agency; Goskomizdat, the Soviet state committee for publishing, printing and book trade; and the D.C. Public Library. Thousands of miles from the tall, wooden racks holding the Soviet volumes here, the United States is showcasing its 1,000 books by U.S. authors-in the ca...
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