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Lisa C. Paul

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Lisa C. Paul was born in Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, in 1962, and moved to Appleton, Wisconsin, when she was four. She is a 1980 graduate of Appleton West High School.

She first traveled to the Soviet Union in 1982 as part of a Soviet Studies semester during her sophomore year in college. A year later, she returned to Moscow to work as a nanny for an American family. She lived there from 1983 to 1985, just before Mikhail Gorbachev came to power and ushered in an era of openness and political reforms.

Lisa graduated with a major in Russian Area Studies from the University of Minnesota in 1986, and then she moved to Washington, D.C., to work on a landmark conference on U.S.-Soviet relations. After the conference, she worked for the American Committe ...more

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Lisa C. Paul's Blog: Swimming in the Daylight: Author's Blog

PAPERBACK RELEASE – August 5, 2014!!!

My book will be released in paperback on August 5, 2014. I was honored to receive a foreword for it from

Natan Sharansky. He was my hero when I was active for Inna’s release–during that time, he was in a Soviet

labor camp, where he was ultimately confined for 8 years. He became the iconic symbol for the international

movement to free Soviet Jews. Here is an excerpt from the foreword:

“The touching and