Raymond H. Fisher; UCLA Expert on Russian History

Raymond H. Fisher, 86, an internationally recognized scholar and professor of Russian history at UCLA for 29 years. Fisher, who was a State Department aide from 1944 to 1946, was considered an expert on the development of the Soviet state, and his views on the emergence of the Soviet Union as a political and military rival to the United States were widely sought in the early Cold War years. His publications include “The Russian Fur Trade: 1550-1700,” “Bering’s Voyages: Whither and Why” and “Great Russian Navigator A.I. Chirikov.” Fisher, who earned his doctorate at UC Berkeley, continued to counsel and do research at UCLA after his 1975 retirement. In Los Angeles on May 7.