Sergey Radchenko

Sergey S. Radchenko (Russian: Сергей Сергеевич Радченко; born 1980) is a Soviet-born British-Russian historian. He is the Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor at the Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, and visiting professor at Cardiff University.[1][2] He was previously Reader at Aberystwyth University, Lecturer at University of Nottingham Ningbo China, a Global Fellow and a Public Policy Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Centre, and as the Zi Jiang Distinguished Professor at East China Normal University (Shanghai).[3]

He is a historian of the Cold War, mainly known for his work on Sino-Soviet relations and Soviet foreign policy.[4][5][6]

Radchenko was born in Maritime Province in 1980 and grew up in Korsakov, Sakhalin Island, Russian SFSR, USSR. In 1995 Radchenko left Sakhalin for the United States (as an exchange student). He then pursued his studies in East Texas, later in Hong Kong, and finally in the UK.[7] Radchenko attended the London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE) in London, earning a BSc in International Relations in 2001 and a PhD in International History in 2005. His PhD thesis, completed under the supervision of Odd Arne Westad, focused on Sino-Soviet relations. It was later published in a revised form as Two Suns in the Heavens: the Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-67 (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2008).

Radchenko speaks Russian, English, Italian, Chinese (Mandarin), and Mongolian.[8]

Selected publications

• Radchenko, Sergey. Two suns in the heavens: the Sino-Soviet struggle for supremacy, 1962-1967. Vol. 33. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2009. ISBN 978-0-8047-5879-6
• Craig, Campbell, and Sergey S. Radchenko. The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War. Yale University Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-300-11028-9
• Kalinovsky, Artemy, and Sergey Radchenko, eds. The end of the Cold War and the Third World: new perspectives on regional conflict. Taylor & Francis, 2011. ISBN 978-0-415-60054-5
• Radchenko, Sergey. Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War. Oxford University Press, 2014. ISBN 978-0-19-993877-3
• To Run the World: The Kremlin's Cold War Bid for Global Power. Cambridge University Press, 2024. ISBN 978-1-10-847735-2

References

1. Radchenko, Sergey. "Professor of International Relations, School of Law and Politics". Cardiff University. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
2. "Sergey Radchenko | Johns Hopkins SAIS". sais.jhu.edu. 9 September 2020. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
3. "Sergey Radchenko". Johns Hopkins SAIS. 2020-09-09. Retrieved 2023-07-18.
4. O’Neal, Adam (2022-01-07). "Opinion | A Look at Putin Through the Soviet Lens". Wall Street Journal. ISSN 0099-9660. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
5. Radchenko, Sergey (6 August 2020). "Sergey Radchenko". Foreign Policy. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
6. "How to stand up to China? Mongolia's got a playbook". The Independent. 2016-12-13. Retrieved 2022-02-04.
7. Radchenko, Sergey S. (2014). Unwanted Visionaries: Soviet Failure in Asia. p. 3.
8. "Sergey Radchenko CV, Cardiff University" (PDF). Geneva Graduate Institute. Retrieved September 8, 2024.

External links

• Brennen, Jensen (Spring 2024). "Back in the U.S.S.R." Johns Hopkins Magazine.