Nina L. Khrushcheva

Please visit my personal homepage http://homepage.mac.com/ninakhrushcheva/

Education

1998 Ph.D in Comparative Literature, Princeton University

1987 MA in Philology, Moscow State University (MGU), Russia

Courses Taught

News Media and Culture: Purveyors of International Affairs; Culture, Diversity and the Media; Capitalism, Globalization and Culture; Russia's Democratic Experiment; The Media and Politics of Propaganda; Politics and Propaganda of the Cold War; Soviet Legacies in Post-Soviet States; Thesis Tutorial

List of Published and Forthcoming Works

(In reverse chronological order. Please note some links may no longer work)

Books

Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale University Press, 2007)

V Gostyakh u Nabokova [Visiting Nabokov] (Vremya Publishers, Moscow, 2008) in Russian

Read Reviews

    July 9, 2008 International Herald Tribune Sophia Kishkovsky, "Rethinking Nabokov as a 'road map' for modern Russia"

    June 2008 (6) Novyi Mir (Russia) Sergei Kostyrko, "Books: Visiting Nabokov" (in Russian, pp. 7-8)

    June 29, 2008 The New York Times Book Review Steve Coates, "Reading Lolita in Moscow"

    June 5, 2008 Nezavisimaya Gazeta: Ex Libris (Russia) Yelena Dorogavtseva, "A Stone Guest: an elite textbook for emigrants" (in Russian)

    May 15-21, 2008 Kultura (Russia) Ninel Ismailova, "'A reappraiser will declare me a rigid moralist': Vladimir Nabokov performed by Nina Khrushcheva" (in Russian)

    May 8, 2008 The Moscow Times: Context (Russia) James Marson, "Speak, Nabokov"

    March 30, 2008 Knizhnoe Obozrenie (Russia) Andrei Miroshkin, "An Encounter in Montreux" (in Russian)

    March 8, 2008 Il Foglio Quotidiano (Italy) Amy Rosenthal on Imagining Nabokov (in Italian)

    February 14, 2008 The Economist (UK) "Vladimir Nabokov: Imagination Ablaze"

      January 19, 2008 National Post (Canada) Robert Fulford, "The myth of the Russian soul"
      January 18, 2008 National Post (Canada) Robert Fulford on why Russians need to read Vladimir Nabokov (full blog version)

      December 27, 2007 Vedomosti (Russia) Lord Robert Skidelsky, "Replacing Mozart with Salieri" (in Russian)

      December 24, 2007 Publishers Weekly NONFICTION Imagining Nabokov

      Listen to Select Interviews

      November 13, 2008 Guest on The Leonard Lopate Show, WNYC, segment “Underreported: Reform in Russia”
      October 29, 2008 Interview with The Book Show, ABC Radio National (Australia)
      February 29, 2008 Radio Interview with As it Happens, CBC (Canada)
      January 11, 2008 Guest on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, TV Ontario (Canada)
      December 23, 2007 Radio Interview with Live from the West Coast with Ian Masters, Pacifica Radio

      Book Chapters (Forthcoming)

      1. Chapter “Despotism, Tyranny, Terrorism” in Anthony Anemone, ed., Just Assassins? The Culture of Russian Terrorism (forthcoming)
      2. Chapter “Russian Philosophy of History” in Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (forthcoming from Blackwell)

      Journal Articles and Book Chapters

      1. "Russia's Rotting Empire," World Policy Journal, Fall 2008
      2. "Das Jahr der Angst. Russland nach Politkowskaja" [The year of fear: Russia After Anna Politkovskaya], Transit: Europaische Revue 34: 2007-2008 (in German)
      3. "An Eternal Revolution of the Russian Mind," Raritan Review, Winter 2008
      4. “Imagining Nabokov: Death is But a Question of Style,” Nabokov OnLine Journal, Spring/Summer 2007
      5. “Vladimir Nabokov and the Russian Poets: From the book Visiting Nabokov,” Russian Studies in Literature, vol. 42, no. 4, Fall 2006. (Also published in Russian in Voprosy Literatury, No. 4, 2005)
      6. "The New Post-Transitional Russian Identity: How Western is Russian Westernization?" with Edward Hancox (New York: World Policy Institute/Harriman Institute Publication, January 2006)
      7. “Twentieth Communist Party Congress Anniversary in USA,” Politia, No. 4 (39) Winter 2005-06 (in Russian)
      8. “‘Rehabilitating’ Stalin,” World Policy Journal, Summer 2005
      9. “Lessons of Transition: The Cultural Contradictions and Future of Russia’s Liberalization,” with Audrey Benvenuti (New York: World Policy Institute Publication, July 2002)
      10. Chapter “Russia and NATO: Lessons Learned” in NATO After Fifty Years (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001), pp. 229-241
      11. “Separatism and Unification in the New World Order,” interview with Yevgeny Primakov in The Harriman Review, vol. 13, no. 1-2, April 2001
      12. “Alexander Solzhenitsyn” in Revolution: Faces of Change (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2000), pp. 38-43
      13. "Cultural Contradictions of Post-Communism: Why Liberal Reforms Did Not Succeed in Russia" (New York: Council on Foreign Relations, 2000)

      Newspaper and Magazine Articles in English

      1. "Fleeting Oil Supremacy" in Forum: The Russians are Coming, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 5, 2008
      2. "Alexander Solzhenitsyn: The Prophet and the Commissars" published by Project Syndicate (Miami Herald, USA, The Guardian, The Scotsman, UK, The Toronto Star, Canada, etc.), August 2008 (See all Project Syndicate contributions)
      3. "China's Triumph of the Will" published by Project Syndicate (The Guardian, UK, Daily News, Egypt, Daily Times, Pakistan, Der Standard, Austria, etc.), August 2008
      4. "Nabokov and Buckley: Khrushchev Not Welcome Here" in Russia!, Summer 2008
      5. "Lost in Byzantium" in Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2008
      6. "Yushchenko of Ukraine: The Hollowing of a Hero" in the International Herald Tribune, March 28, 2008
      7. "Putin's Unwilling Executioner?" published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, The Guardian, The Scotsman, UK, Daily News, Egypt, etc.), February-March 2008
      8. "Modern Tsar" in Barrett Sheridan's The Return of the Bear, Newsweek, February 28, 2008
      9. “Putin of All the Russias,” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, The Daily Star, Lebanon, The Independent, Bangladesh, Moscow Times, Russia, etc.), October 2007
      10. “Kremlin Musical Chairs,” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, Die Welt, Germany, The Daily Star, Lebanon, The Independent, Bangladesh, Ziua, Romania, etc.), September 2007
      11. “Back to the Brink in Ukraine,” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, The Daily Star, Lebanon, The Independent, Bangladesh, Ziua, Romania, etc.), August 2007
      12. “Russia's Inspector General” in the International Herald Tribune, August 10, 2007
      13. “The View from Here: On Russia” in Business Spotlight Verlag, Germany, no. 5, August-September 2007
      14. “The Liars’ Last Reunion: George W. Bush and Vladimir Putin at G-8,” published by Project Syndicate (The Guardian, UK, Die Welt, Germany, The Maimi Herald, USA, The Daily Star, Lebanon, El Tiempo, Colombia, etc.), June 2007
      15. “The Hero of His Time: Boris Yeltsin,” published by Project Syndicate (The Guardian, UK, Die Welt, Germany, Der Standard, Austria, The Maimi Herald, USA, etc.), April 2007
      16. “Nabokov’s Big in Beijing” in The Moscow Times, April 20, 2007
      17. “Playing the Ukrainian Card” in the International Herald Tribune, March 15, 2007
      18. “Fidel Castro: The Autumn of the Commandante,” published by Project Syndicate (The Guardian, UK, Die Welt, Germany, The New York Sun, The Star-Ledger, USA, etc.), January 2007
      19. “A Murder in Moscow: A Tragic Death of Anna Politkovskaya,” published by Project Syndicate (Miami Herald, USA, Die Welt, Germany, Le Figaro, France, La Reppublica, Italy, etc.), October 2006
      20. “The Gulag of the Russian Mind,” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), August 2006
      21. “Cheney, Putin Can’t Get Beyond Cold War Talk” in The Moscow Times, May 17, 2006
      22. “Why not celebrating Nabokov is a tragedy” in the Financial Times, April 19, 2006
      23. “A Fatal Desire for Order” in the International Herald Tribune, February 26, 2006
      24. “The Day Khrushchev Buried Stalin” in the Los Angeles Times, February 19, 2006
      25. “Why Russia Still Loves Stalin” in The Washington Post, February 12, 2006
      26. “The Two Faces of Vladimir Putin” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), June 2005
      27. “Happy Birthday, Nikita Khrushchev” in The New York Times, April 16, 2005
      28. “Vova the Dread” in the Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2005
      29. “The Empire Sneaks Back” in The International Herald Tribune, October 30, 2004
      30. “Russian Culture of Contempt” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Le Figaro, France), August 2004
      31. “Vladimir Putin: a Tzar or a Doge” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), April 2004
      32. “Vladimir Putin Hurts Russian Democracy: Duma Elections 2003” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), December 2003
      33. “Putin Wears a President’s Clothes, but He’s Really an Ersatz Czar” in the Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2003
      34. “Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad” in The Nation, May 19, 2003
      35. “Stalin and Memory” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), March, 2003
      36. “Treason of Russian Intellectuals: A Case of Chechnya” in the Tages Anzeiger (Switzerland), March 3, 2003
      37. “Putin the Poker player” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, Der Standard, Austria, etc.), February 2003
      38. “Russian Language is Our Wealth (Soviet Slogan)” in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Winter, 2002/2003
      39. “The Details: St. Petersburg” in Esquire, September 2002
      40. “The Russian Dreifus Affair” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Le Figaro, France, Die Welt, Germany), August 2002
      41. “Putin as an Island” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Le Figaro (France), Netherlands, Die Welt, Germany), May 2002
      42. “International Response to 9-11: Russian Press Makes it Good” in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Winter/Spring, 2002
      43. “Fidel, Monica and Me” in Salon.com, March 1, 2002
      44. “What Comes First in Russia: Democracy or Trust?” in the Los Angeles Times, December 27, 2001
      45. “Shevarnadze’s Last Stand?” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Die Welt, Germany), November 2001
      46. “Nabokov’s Russian Return” in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Summer/Fall, 2001
      47. “Missile Defense Would Rile the Russian Bear” in the Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2001
      48. “Forward to Putinism” in the Russian Regional Report, Vol. 6, No. 2, 17 January 2001, also published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Die Welt, Germany), January 2001
      49. “To Russia, With Love and Pharmaceuticals” in the Los Angeles Times, November, 26, 2000
      50. “Homo Sovieticus [Vladimir Putin]” in the Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2000
      51. “A Watch, A Shoe and a Cold War Tale,” in the Los Angeles Times, September 7, 2000
      52. "Vladimir Putin, Cultural Maestro," in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Summer 2000
      53. "Why Gusinsky Was Arrested, Let Go" in the Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2000
      54. "Putin and Pushkin" published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Die Welt, Germany), June 2000
      55. "Yeltsin's Last Surprise" published by the New York Times Syndicate and Project Syndicate, January 2000
      56. "Moscow's Boss Under Fire" in the IntellectualCapital.com, December 16, 1999
      57. “Russia’s Center Doesn’t Hold” with Robert Orttung, published by Project Syndicate (NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Asakhi Evening News, Japan, etc.), September 1999
      58. “Here’s a Message to Moscow: Get Over It” in The Los Angeles Times, June 16, 1999
      59. “In Moscow, It’s All Boris, All the Time” in the Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1999
      60. “Where does Russia Go?” in the IntellectualCapital.com, April 1, 1999
      61. “When Things Get Hairy in the Kremlin,” in the Los Angeles Times, December 30, 1998
      62. “Baldness and Democracy” in the IntellectualCapital.com, December 17, 1998
      63. “A Familiar Theme That Poisons Russian Politics” in the Los Angeles Times, November 25, 1998
      64. “Weight of the nation: fat as a regional concept” in The Times of London, July 11, 1998
      65. “The Sad State of Russian-American Relations” in Analysis of Current Events, July/Aug. 1998
      66. “NATO expansion: Postscript or prelude?” in The Trenton Times, 17 May 17, 1998
      67. “Deconstructing Yeltsin” in the IntellectualCapital.com, April 2, 1998
      68. “In Russia, Czar Yeltsin Gives a Warning” in the Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1998
      69. “In Hollywood, Russians still favored villains” in The Trenton Times, November 30, 1997
      70. “From Socialist Utopia Toward True Democracy” in the Los Angeles Times, November 14, 1997
      71. “Khrushchev’s Diary” in the IntellectualCapital.com, September 25, 1997
      72. “Independence Has a Wry Meaning in a Land Searching for Pride” in the Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1997
      73. “Who cares who’s sleeping where? Others should have such troubles!” in the Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 1997
      74. “Russians will work it out by themselves, thank you” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 7, 1996
      75. “Khrushchev's shoe shook the world” in The Philadephia Inquirer, October 22, 1995
      76. “Russians sacrificed – for what?” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 1995
      77. “We don’t trust ourselves” in The Trenton Times, January 22, 1995
      78. “There are signs of magic in this war-torn world” in The Trenton Times, January 1, 1995
      79. “Everything is possible in the ‘New Curiosity Shop’” in The Trenton Times, November 27, 1994
      Book Reviews
      1. “A Tangled Conspiracy Tale, Soviet Style. A Review of Stalin’s Last Crime: The Plot against Jewish Doctors, 1948-1953 by Jonathan Brent and Vladimir P. Naumov,” in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 22, 2004
      2. “Why Gorbachev is Russia’s Unsung Hero” in the Los Angeles Times Book Review, August 11, 2002
      3. “Where Rabbits Fly: On Tatayna Tolstaya’s Novel Kys” in The Times Literary Supplement, October 5, 2001
      4. “Culture Matters but not in Russia: Review of L. Harrison, S. Huntington, eds, Culture Matters: How Values Shape Human Progress” in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Spring 2001
      5. "Homo Soveticus: A Review of First Person: An Astonishingly Frank Self-Portrait by Russia's President Vladimir Putin" in the Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2000
      6. "Visiting Nabokov" in the Nezavisimaya Gazeta-Ex Libris, April 20, 2000 (in Russian)
      7. "Report from Russia: The Future of the Thick Journals" in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Winter 1999/2000
      8. "Soviet Leader Revisits Changes and Promise of a Stormy Nation: A Review of On My Country and the World by Mikhail Gorbachev in the Washington Post, November 21, 1999
      9. “The Master”: A Review of Pushkin by Elaine Feinsten, and Eugene Onegin, translated by Douglas Hofstadter” in the Wall Street Journal, July 15, 1999
      10. “Novel interests, but misses Uncle Joe the man: A Review of The Autobiography of Joseph Stalin by Richard Lourie,” in The Washington Times, June 27, 1999
      11. “Solzhenitsyn’s History Lesson” in The Nation, May 3, 1999
      12. “Speak, Memory. Nabokov Revisited” in the Washington Times, May 2, 1999
      13. “From Russia with Love”: A Review of Andre Makine’s Once Upon the River Love” in the Washington Times, September 12, 1998
      14. “Reclaiming a Master. A New Translation of Nikolai Gogol's Short Stories” in The Washington Times, June 14, 1998

      List of articles in the Russian Press could be found here.