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 a visiting professor at Cardiff University. He has served as a Reader at Aberystwyth University, 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).
He is a historian of the Cold War, mainly known for his work on Sino-Soviet relations and Soviet foreign policy.
Radchenko was born in Korsakov, Sakhalin Island, Russian SFSR, USSR, in 1980. He grew up in his family’s small one-room flat of an old Soviet apartment house. Radchenko previously 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. He speaks Russian and English as native languages and speaks Mandarin Chinese and Mongolian fluently.
Books in order of publication:
The atomic bomb and the origins of the Cold War. Yale University Press, 2008
Two suns in the heavens: the Sino-Soviet struggle for supremacy, 1962-1967. Vol. 33. Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2009.
The end of the Cold War and the Third World: new perspectives on regional conflict. Taylor & Francis, 2011
Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War. Oxford University Press, 2014
To Run the World: The Kremlin’s Cold War Bid for Global Power. Cambridge University Press, 2024
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