Biographical/Historical Note
Susan (Suzi) Weissman, a Professor and Chair of Politics at Saint Mary's College of California, sits on the editorial boards of Critique and Against the Current. She is the author of Victor Serge: The Course Is Set on Hope (Verso, 2001); and edited Victor Serge: Russia Twenty Years After (Humanities, 1996), and The Ideas of Victor Serge (Critique Books, 1997), as well as many articles on the Soviet Union and Russia. Her research emphasis is on working class and left wing dissent. Weissman has hosted drive-time broadcast public affairs programs on KPFK radio of Los Angeles for more than two decades. During the years of turmoil and disintegration of the Soviet Union, she hosted many special programs and live broadcasts from participants. She began as host of "Portraits of USSR" and "Read All About It" later titled "The New World Disorder" before it morphed into "Beneath the Surface."
Source: Suzi Weissman (about) page, http://suziweissman.com/?q=about accessed 11 August 2010
From the guide to the Susan Weissman Radio Broadcast Interviews, 1986-2000, (Hoover Institution Archives)
