Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva (russian: Нина Львовна Хрущёва, /xrʊ.ˈɕo.və/) is a Russian-American Professor of International Affairs at

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, and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World.

Family

Khrushcheva was born in 1964 in Moscow, Russian SFSR, and is the great-granddaughter (and adoptive granddaughter) of former leader of the

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. When Khrushchev's son

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died in

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, Nikita adopted Leonid's two-year-old daughter, Julia, who later became Nina's mother. Khrushcheva's father, Lev Petrov, died in 1970 at age 47.

Education

Khrushcheva received a degree from

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in Russia, with a major in Russian in 1987, and a Ph.D. in Comparative Literature from

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in New Jersey, in 1998.

Career

From 2002 to 2004, Khrushcheva was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at the School of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in New York. Khrushcheva is currently a Professor of International Affairs in the graduate program at

in New York. Khrushcheva is the author of numerous articles, director of the Russia Project at the World Policy Institute, contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World, and editor of Project Syndicate's Russia column. Her articles have appeared in ''

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'' and other publications. She had a two-year research appointment at the School of Historical Studies of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at

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. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York. She is the author of ''Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics'' ( Yale UP, 2008) and ''The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind'' (Tate, 2014), and co-author of ''In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones'' (St. Martin's Press, 2019). In March 2022, Khrushcheva expressed outrage at

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's conduct in the war that he waged against Ukraine, saying that her grandfather would have found Putin's conduct to be "despicable". In October 2022, she said, alluding to George Orwell's novel ''

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'', that in "Putin’s Russia, war is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength and illegally annexing a sovereign country’s territory is fighting colonialism."

Work

* * ''The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind''.

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. 2014. . * ''In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones''.

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. 2019. .

References

External links

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"The Mysteries of Political Strategy"

Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad

New School profile
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