Nina Khrushcheva is Professor of International Affairs in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at The New School in New York. She is a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute and an editor of and contributor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. Khrushcheva’s articles have been published in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Newsweek, The Atlantic and other international publications. Her books have been published in Russian and English. In English, she is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (Yale UP, 2008), The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), and co-author of In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin’s Press, 2019).