Nina Khrushcheva - a podcast by Chautauqua Institution

from 2018-07-20T16:49

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On today's episode, guest interviewer John Merino speaks with Nina Khrushcheva, a professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School in New York City, where her research interests include global media and culture, world politics, Russian politics and culture, and propaganda and Hollywood. Nina presented an Amphitheater lecture during this week on "Russia and the West," on Wednesday, July 18.


Nina is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind, which is about her grandfather Leonid Khrushchev, the oldest son of former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev. Her latest book, In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones, is forthcoming in 2019. Follow her on Twitter at @ninakhrushcheva.


Nina Khrushcheva's July 18 speech in the Amphitheater:



John Merino is the retired CEO of the Gebbie Foundation in Jamestown, New York, and the primary host of "Chautauqua Chronicles," a rebroadcast of CHQ&A on WRFA 107.9-FM, listener-supported radio in Jamestown.

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