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Historian of the Cold War and after. Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Henry A. Kissinger Center for Global Affairs, Johns Hopkins School for Advanced International Studies. The author of “To Run the World.”

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Sergey S. Radchenko 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. 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). .. more

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Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social · May 4
I will soon be starting a new academic project: a history of the war between Russia and Ukraine. I am to have the book published by 2032 (10th anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion).

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On BBC this morning, with Catherine Barnard (Cambridge), and our wonderful host Julian Worricker. Talking about politics, sports, literature, art, and love.

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Joseph Torigian @josephtorigian.bsky.social · 18d
If you’re in Italy, I’ll be doing three presentations there next week.

On Monday October 27, I’ll do a book talk on The Party’s Interests Come First: the Life of Xi Zhongxun, Father of Xi Jinping in Milan at Universita Cattolica del Sacro Cuore

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The Yeltsins.

A newly declassified document sheds light on the Russian leader's family. I recently asked the UK National Archives to declassify a closed document on the Yeltsins. As a result, we now have this fascinating report on Naina Yeltsin and her relationship with her husband.

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Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social · 27d
What will make Russia a "contented" power? And is the price worth paying? open.substack.com/pub/profradc...
What will make Russia a "contented" power? And is the price worth paying?
An interesting discussion from the mid-1990s.
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What will make Russia a "contented" power? And is the price worth paying?

An interesting discussion from the mid-1990s. From the “what one clerk wrote to another” series, this here below is a remarkable summary of our strategic dilemma with Russia. Penned in 1994 by William Hopkinson (then Assistant Under Secretary for Policy at the Ministry of Defense and later a think-tanker at the Chatham House), this note asks what it would take to make Russia a “contented” power, an…

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Sergey Radchenko @radchenko.bsky.social · Oct 11
Running the world *together* with the US? open.substack.com/pub/profradc.... I explore an interesting idea that Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev presented to the Americans in 1994, and why he expected the United States to help Russia in rebuilding its sphere of influence.
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The historical origins of Russia's resentment (from newly declassified documents).
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Running the world *together* with the US?

The historical origins of Russia's resentment (from newly declassified documents). Among recently declassified documents on the post-Cold War history of US-Russia relations, there is one that really stands out. It’s the thirty-page long discussion between Russian Foreign Minister Andrei Kozyrev and U.S. Secretary of State Warren Christopher. The meeting took place on March 15, 1994 in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East. It provides unique insights into Moscow’s expectations of the post-Cold War world, as well as early signs of frustrations and resentment that would soon boil over into the kind of revisionism we have come to associate with Putin.

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