Soviet era items on display in April

Retired professor emeritus Taylor Stults is offering a glimpse into the Cold War era. The Library's display cases are full of many military and civilian items from the former Soviet Union including:

• a medal commemorating Yuri Gagarin's first manned space flight,
  
• communist party registration documents,
  
• Russian Life, an English-language magazine meant to give a good spin on communism to Americans, and
  
• a Russian Pepsi bottle.

Dr. Stults authored The Course of Russian History (with co-author Melvin Wren) and Fifty Major Documents of the Twentieth Century: 1950-2000. He taught Russian and Soviet Union history courses while at Muskingum from 1962-2001.