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 Workshop

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

    Volume 3/2009 Nabokov Online Journal (NOJ) Thomas Karshan, Review of Imagining Nabokov

    Volume 67/No.4 2009 Slavic Review Elizabeth Klosty Beaujour, Review of Imagining Nabokov

    December 24, 2008 The Moscow Times: Context (Russia) James Marson, "The Revolutions of History: Lessons of the past are the focus of the year's best books related to Russia" (Best Book Debut)

    July 9, 2008 The New York Times-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

      Journal Articles and Book Chapters

      1. Chapter “Russia: A Revolutionary Life” in Anthony Anemone, ed., Just Assassins: The Culture of Terrorism in Russia (forthcoming August 2010 from Northwestern University Press)
      2. Chapter “Russian Philosophy of History” in Blackwell Companion to Philosophy (forthcoming from Blackwell)
      3. "Art, Freedom and the Grey Matter of Putinism" in Nexus (NL) (forthcoming Winter 2010)
      4. "Russia's Rotting Empire," World Policy Journal, Fall 2008
      5. "Das Jahr der Angst. Russland nach Politkowskaja" [The year of fear: Russia After Anna Politkovskaya], Transit: Europaische Revue 34: 2007-2008 (in German)
      6. "An Eternal Revolution of the Russian Mind," Raritan Review, Winter 2008
      7. “Imagining Nabokov: Death is But a Question of Style,” Nabokov OnLine Journal, Spring/Summer 2007
      8. “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)
      9. "The New Post-Transitional Russian Identity: How Western is Russian Westernization?" with Edward Hancox (New York: World Policy Institute/Harriman Institute Publication, January 2006)
      10. “Twentieth Communist Party Congress Anniversary in USA,” Politia, No. 4 (39) Winter 2005-06 (in Russian)
      11. “‘Rehabilitating’ Stalin,” World Policy Journal, Summer 2005
      12. “Lessons of Transition: The Cultural Contradictions and Future of Russia’s Liberalization,” with Audrey Benvenuti (New York: World Policy Institute Publication, July 2002)
      13. Chapter “Russia and NATO: Lessons Learned” in NATO After Fifty Years (Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources, 2001), pp. 229-241
      14. “Separatism and Unification in the New World Order,” interview with Yevgeny Primakov in The Harriman Review, vol. 13, no. 1-2, April 2001
      15. “Alexander Solzhenitsyn” in Revolution: Faces of Change (New York: Thunder’s Mouth Press, 2000), pp. 38-43
      16. "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. "Ukrainian Democracy and Its Cynics" published by Project Syndicate (The Daily Star, Lebanon, Kristeligt Dagblad, Denmark, Sunday Zaman, Turkey, etc.), February 2010 (See all Project Syndicate contributions)
      2. "No Heads are Better Than Two" in Foreign Policy, January/February 2010
      3. "Putin's Potemkin Nation" published by Project Syndicate (The National Times, Australia; Il Sole, Italy, etc.), Dec 2009 
      4. "Nabokov's Manuscripts Don't Burn" in The Moscow Times, December 4, 2009
      5. "KGB Petroleum" published by Project Syndicate, November 2009
      6. "The Memory Trap" in Foreign Policy, November 6, 2009
      7. "Two Funerals and Our Freedom" published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany; The Guardian, The Scotsman, UK, etc.), July-August 2009 
      8. "Legally Lawless Russia" in Forbes, July 7, 2009
      9. "America's Favorite Boogeyman" in The Moscow Times, January 26, 2009
      10. "Putin's Year of Living Dangerously" published by Project Syndicate (Sydney Morning Herald, Australia, etc.), Dec 2008 
      11. "Fleeting Oil Supremacy" in Forum: The Russians are Coming, The Chronicle of Higher Education, September 5, 2008
      12. "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 
      13. "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
      14. "Nabokov and Buckley: Khrushchev Not Welcome Here" in Russia!, Summer 2008
      15. "Lost in Byzantium" in Los Angeles Times, June 1, 2008
      16. "Yushchenko of Ukraine: The Hollowing of a Hero" in The New York Times-International Herald Tribune, March 28, 2008
      17. "Putin's Unwilling Executioner?" published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, The Guardian, The Scotsman, UK, Daily News, Egypt, etc.), February-March 2008
      18. "Modern Tsar" in Barrett Sheridan's The Return of the Bear, Newsweek, February 28, 2008
      19. “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
      20. “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
      21. “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
      22. “Russia's Inspector General” in The New York Times-International Herald Tribune, August 10, 2007
      23. “The View from Here: On Russia” in Business Spotlight Verlag, Germany, no. 5, August-September 2007
      24. “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
      25. “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
      26. “Nabokov’s Big in Beijing” in The Moscow Times, April 20, 2007
      27. “Playing the Ukrainian Card” in The New York Times-International Herald Tribune, March 15, 2007
      28. “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
      29. “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
      30. “The Gulag of the Russian Mind” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), August 2006
      31. “Cheney, Putin Can’t Get Beyond Cold War Talk” in The Moscow Times, May 17, 2006
      32. “Why not celebrating Nabokov is a tragedy” in the Financial Times, April 19, 2006
      33. “A Fatal Desire for Order” in The New York Times-International Herald Tribune, February 26, 2006
      34. “The Day Khrushchev Buried Stalin” in the Los Angeles Times, February 19, 2006
      35. “Why Russia Still Loves Stalin” in The Washington Post, February 12, 2006
      36. “The Two Faces of Vladimir Putin” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), June 2005
      37. “Happy Birthday, Nikita Khrushchev” in The New York Times, April 16, 2005
      38. “Vova the Dread” in the Wall Street Journal, March 5, 2005
      39. “The Empire Sneaks Back” in The New York Times-International Herald Tribune, October 30, 2004
      40. “Russian Culture of Contempt” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Le Figaro, France), August 2004
      41. “Vladimir Putin: a Tzar or a Doge” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), April 2004
      42. “Vladimir Putin Hurts Russian Democracy” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), Dec 2003
      43. “Putin Wears a President’s Clothes, but He’s Really an Ersatz Czar” in Los Angeles Times, October 1, 2003
      44. “Brezhnev, Bush and Baghdad” in The Nation, May 19, 2003
      45. “Stalin and Memory” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, El Pais, Spain, etc.), March, 2003
      46. “Treason of Russian Intellectuals: A Case of Chechnya” in Tages Anzeiger (Switzerland), March 3, 2003
      47. “Putin the Poker player” published by Project Syndicate (Die Welt, Germany, Der Standard, Austria, etc.), February 2003
      48. “Russian Language is Our Wealth (Soviet Slogan)” in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Winter, 2002/2003
      49. “The Details: St. Petersburg” in Esquire, September 2002
      50. “The Russian Dreifus Affair” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Le Figaro, France, Die Welt, Germany), August 2002
      51. “Putin as an Island” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Le Figaro, France, Die Welt, Germany), May 2002
      52. “International Response to 9-11: Russian Press Makes it Good” in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Winter/Spring, 2002
      53. “Fidel, Monica and Me” in Salon.com, March 1, 2002
      54. “What Comes First in Russia: Democracy or Trust?” in Los Angeles Times, December 27, 2001
      55. “Shevarnadze’s Last Stand?” published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Die Welt, Germany), November 2001
      56. “Nabokov’s Russian Return” in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Summer/Fall, 2001
      57. “Missile Defense Would Rile the Russian Bear” in Los Angeles Times, February 12, 2001
      58. “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
      59. “To Russia, With Love and Pharmaceuticals” in Los Angeles Times, November, 26, 2000
      60. “Homo Sovieticus [Vladimir Putin]” in Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2000
      61. “A Watch, A Shoe and a Cold War Tale” in Los Angeles Times, September 7, 2000
      62. "Vladimir Putin, Cultural Maestro" in CORRESPONDENCE: An International Review of Culture and Society, Summer 2000
      63. "Why Gusinsky Was Arrested, Let Go" in Los Angeles Times, June 20, 2000
      64. "Putin and Pushkin" published by Project Syndicate (Der Standard, Austria, NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Die Welt, Germany), June 2000
      65. "Yeltsin's Last Surprise" published by The New York Times Syndicate and Project Syndicate, January 2000
      66. "Moscow's Boss Under Fire" in IntellectualCapital.com, December 16, 1999
      67. “Russia’s Center Doesn’t Hold” with Robert Orttung, published by Project Syndicate (NRC Handelsbuad, Netherlands, Asakhi Evening News, Japan, etc.), September 1999
      68. “Here’s a Message to Moscow: Get Over It” in Los Angeles Times, June 16, 1999
      69. “In Moscow, It’s All Boris, All the Time” in Los Angeles Times, May 13, 1999
      70. “Where does Russia Go?” in the IntellectualCapital.com, April 1, 1999
      71. “When Things Get Hairy in the Kremlin” in Los Angeles Times, December 30, 1998
      72. “Baldness and Democracy” in the IntellectualCapital.com, December 17, 1998
      73. “A Familiar Theme That Poisons Russian Politics” in Los Angeles Times, November 25, 1998
      74. “Weight of the nation: fat as a regional concept” in The Times of London, July 11, 1998
      75. “The Sad State of Russian-American Relations” in Analysis of Current Events, July/Aug. 1998
      76. “NATO expansion: Postscript or prelude?” in The Trenton Times, 17 May 17, 1998
      77. “Deconstructing Yeltsin” in the IntellectualCapital.com, April 2, 1998
      78. “In Russia, Czar Yeltsin Gives a Warning” in Los Angeles Times, February 6, 1998
      79. "The Russians are Coming!" in Los Angeles Times, January 2, 1998
      80. “In Hollywood, Russians still favored villains” in The Trenton Times, November 30, 1997
      81. “From Socialist Utopia Toward True Democracy” in Los Angeles Times, November 14, 1997
      82. “Khrushchev’s Diary” in the IntellectualCapital.com, September 25, 1997
      83. “Independence Has a Wry Meaning in a Land Searching for Pride” in Los Angeles Times, July 4, 1997
      84. “Who cares who’s sleeping where? Others should have such troubles!” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 20, 1997
      85. “Russians will work it out by themselves, thank you” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, January 7, 1996
      86. “Khrushchev's shoe shook the world” in The Philadephia Inquirer, October 22, 1995
      87. “Russians sacrificed – for what?” in The Philadelphia Inquirer, May 9, 1995
      88. “We don’t trust ourselves” in The Trenton Times, January 22, 1995
      89. “There are signs of magic in this war-torn world” in The Trenton Times, January 1, 1995
      90. “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 Los Angeles Times Book Review, February 22, 2004
      2. “Why Gorbachev is Russia’s Unsung Hero” in 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 Los Angeles Times, September 24, 2000
      6. "Visiting Nabokov" in 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, Sept 12, 1998
      14. “Reclaiming a Master. A New Translation of Nikolai Gogol's Short Stories” in The Washington Times, June 14, 1998

      Newspaper and Magazine Articles in the Russian Press 

      1. "Two Opposite Forms of Living" in The New Times, Feb 15-22, 2010
      2. "Lolita ‘seduces' China" in Vedomosti, March 28, 2008
      3. "Good Bye, The Propagandist (Dick Cheney)" in Vedomosti, July 6, 2007
      4. "Putin and Bush: The Last Reunion of the Twins" in Vedomosti, June 6, 2007
      5. "George Bush: Genius for the Moment" in Moskovskie Novosti, Moscow, July 7, 2006
      6. "George Bush Will Not Be Impeached" in Moskovskie Novosti, Jan 20, 2006
      7. "‘You are an Idiot Yourself,' Russia's Reaction to the ABC Interview with Shamil Basaev" in Moskovskie Novosti, Aug 5, 2005
      8. "The Strongest Rules: World Leaders Don't Choose Good Partners to Benefit World Affairs" in Moskovskie Novosti, July 8, 2005
      9. "This is Not Orwell: 1984 vs. Brave New World in America Today" in Moskovskie Novosti, Jan 21, 2005
      10. "Dick Cheney as Doctor Strangelove" in Trud, Nov 20, 2004
      11. "Messianic Policy by Conviction: George W. Bush vs. John Kerry" in Trud, Oct 27, 2004
      12. "In Defense of George Bush" in Izvestia, Sept 23, 2004
      13. "Khrushchev's Presumption of Innocence" in Ogoniok Weekly, No 31, Aug 2-8, 2004
      14. "Good Morning, Baghdad!" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Dec 22, 2003
      15. "Why Do We Love New York" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Sept 15, 2003
      16. "Washington in the ‘Closet'" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, June 23, 2003
      17. "Democracy or Patriotism" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, March 3, 2003
      18. "America Readies for War" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Jan 31, 2003
      19. "Mr. Bush Goes To Saint Petersburg" in Obshchaya Gazeta, May 23, 2002
      20. "In a Game of Happiness: On ‘The Beautiful Mind' and the ‘Luzhin Defense'" in Obshchaya Gazeta, April 16, 2002
      21. "Bush, Nixon and Forrest Gump" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Feb 28, 2002
      22. "Battles between Justice and Unfairness" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Feb 7, 2002
      23. "Russian Experts or the Internet Extension? America Can't Get over the Cold War" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Jan 17, 2002
      24. "Putin Has Made America Fearful" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Nov 22-29, 2001
      25. "New York City: September 11, 2001" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Sept 20-27, 2001
      26. "A Case of Marquis de Sade: On Russian Theater in America" in Obshchaya Gazeta, July 12, 2001
      27. "End of the Overseas Democracy" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Jan 25-31, 2001
      28. "If We Only Can Keep Bill Clinton in the White House..." in Obshchaya Gazeta, Nov 16-22, 2000
      29. "Human Being is Meaningless in Russia: Submarine Kursk Tragedy" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Aug 24-30, 2000
      30. "Beauty of the Vaudeville Art: Lincoln Center Festival 2000" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, July 28, 2000
      31. "Kremlin Wives" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta-Ex Libris, June 20, 2000
      32. "Nabokov under Glass. America's Celebration of Nabokov's Centennial" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, June 11, 1999
      33. "Shchedrin and Temirkanov as a the Mirror of Russian Culture" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, March 31, 1999
      34. "Spirit or Detail: Eifman Ballet of Saint Petersburg in New York" in Nezavisimaya Gazeta, Feb 6, 1999
      35. "The Majority of the Fat" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Sept 24-30, 1998
      36. "The Burden of Freedom" in Obshchaya Gazeta, April 16, 1998
      37. "From Russia with an Enemy" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Dec 18, 1997
      38. "President Clinton's ‘Coffeegate'" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Oct 23, 1997
      39. "You can Get What You Wish for" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Aug 28, 1997
      40. "A Homeless and the Kremlin Ladies" in Obshchaya Gazeta, Aug 7, 1997
      41. "The Kind mafia" in Obshchaya Gazeta, June 26, 1997
      42. "Miracle of Translation II" in Novoye Russkoye Slovo, Aug 13, 1996
      43. "Miracle of Translation I" in Novoye Russkoye Slovo, Aug 6, 1996
      44. "Lullaby for a lonely old men" in Novoye Russkoye Slovo, June 1, 1996
      45. "Dear Mafia" in Novoye Russkoye Slovo, June 8, 1996
      46. "The Women's Question" in Novoye Russkoye Slovo, March 30, 1996
      47. "A Letter to 'Novoye Russkoye Slovo' on the old Russian Character" in Novoye Russkoye Slovo, Dec 8, 1995
      48. "To be or not to be the first lady" Vy i My, Fall 1995