Nina Khrushcheva

The granddaughter of Nikita Khrushchev, who led the former Soviet Union at the height of the Cold War, Nina Khrushcheva was born there in 1964 and has since made her own name as a scholar and writer in the United States. After earning her Ph.D. in comparative literature from Princeton University, she served as a research fellow at the School of Historical Studies of the Institute for Advanced Study. She is currently an associate professor of international affairs at the New School in New York, a senior fellow at the World Policy Institute, and a regular contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World, editing its ”Window on Russia” series. Her articles have appeared in publications such as The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, and she is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind. Updated 2013