Nina Khrushcheva | |
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.jpg) Khrushcheva in 2015 | |
| Native name | Нина Хрущёва |
| Born | Nina Lvovna Petrova 1964 (age 60–61) Moscow,Russian SFSR, Soviet Union |
| Occupation | Professor of International Affairs |
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| Genres | Non-fiction; history |
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Nina Lvovna Khrushcheva (Russian:Нина Львовна Хрущёва,IPA:[ˈnʲinəˈlʲvovnəxrʊˈɕːɵvə];née Petrova [Петрова]; born 1964) is a professor of International Affairs atThe New School inNew York City, and a Contributing Editor toProject Syndicate, an "Association of Newspapers Around the World".[1][2]
Khrushcheva was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, and is the great-granddaughter (and adoptive granddaughter) of former leader of theSoviet UnionNikita Khrushchev. When Khrushchev's sonLeonid died inWorld War II, 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.[3]
Khrushcheva received a degree fromMoscow State University in Russia, with a major in Russian in 1987, and a Ph.D. in comparative literature fromPrinceton University in New Jersey, in 1998.
From 2002 to 2004, Khrushcheva was an Adjunct Assistant Professor at theSchool of International and Public Affairs, Columbia University in New York. Khrushcheva is currently a Professor of International Affairs in the graduate program atThe New School in New York.[4]
Khrushcheva is the author of numerous articles. She directed the Russia Project at the World Policy Institute,[5] and has been a long-time contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World, and editor of Project Syndicate's Russia column. Her articles have appeared inNewsweek,The New York Times,The Wall Street Journal, theFinancial Times 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 atNYU School of Law. She is a member of theCouncil on Foreign Relations and a recipient ofGreat Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York.
She is the author ofImagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics[6] (Yale UP, 2008) andThe Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), co-author ofIn Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019) and (in Russian) "Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System" (Никита Хрущев: вождь вне системы) (Diletant.media, 2024).
In March 2022, Khrushcheva was critical ofVladimir Putin's conduct inthe war that he waged against Ukraine, saying that her grandfather would have found Putin's conduct to be "despicable".[7] In October 2022, she said, alluding toGeorge Orwell's novel1984, 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."[8]
In January 2024, she wrote that "Putin will throw everything he has at this war", suggesting "that Ukraine is unlikely to reclaim all of its territory" and "the west should focus onbolstering Ukraine’s defences, while preparing to seize any opportunity to engage in realistictalks with the Kremlin."[9]
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 Nina L. Khrushcheva, Associate Professor, The New School,France24, 28 February 2014 |
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