Nina Khrushcheva — SPARQNOW

At-a-Glance

Professor of International Affairs at The New School since 2001
Author of 'Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics' (2008), 'The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind' (2014), 'In Putin's Footsteps' (2019), and 'Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System' (2024)
Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate, with articles in Newsweek, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Financial Times
Received a PhD in Comparative Literature from Princeton University in 1998
Member of the Council on Foreign Relations

Biography

Nina Khrushcheva is a Professor of International Affairs in the graduate program at The New School in New York City, a position she has held since 2001. Born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, she is the great-granddaughter of former Soviet Union leader Nikita Khrushchev. She earned a degree from Moscow State University in Russian in 1987 and a Ph.

D. in comparative literature from Princeton University in 1998.