Nina Krushcheva's six favorite books to help you understand the world

Nina Khrushcheva is Professor of International Affairs at New School University in New York. She is senior fellow of World Policy Institute and contributing editor to Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. After receiving PhD from Princeton University, she had a two-year research appointment at the School of Historical Studies of Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton and then served as Deputy Editor of East European Constitutional Review at NYU School of Law. Khrushcheva is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey Into the Gulag of the Russian Mind. Her new book is In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones (with Jeffrey Tayler).

One of Khrushcheva's six favorite books to help you understand the world, as shared at The Week magazine:

Red Famine: Stalin's War on Ukraine by Anne Applebaum (2017).

Applebaum is a master narrator of Soviet tragedies; her latest book is a moving account of the 1932–34 Ukrainian catastrophe known as the Holodomor (Death from hunger). The author's research shows that the famine, which killed millions, was caused deliberately by Josef Stalin to crush Ukrainian nationalism.

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--Marshal Zeringue