Radchenko, Sergey

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 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.