Sergey Radchenko
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 3774520 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sergey Radchenko |
| NOMBRES | Sergey |
| APELLIDO | Radchenko |
| FIRMA | RADCHENKO S |
| AFILIACIONES | Cardiff University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8934-1933 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 34 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 19 |
| OBRAS COMO AUTOR | 33 |
| OBRAS COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2005 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Escaping the Motherland’s Tight Embrace
When in February 2022 Russia invaded Ukraine, thousands of Russians fled abroad. The high point of the exodus was the fall of 2022, when President of Russia Vladimir Putin decreed partial mobilization. Some of the escapees were dissidents. Others had not distinguished themselves by any oppositional activity. Yet others presumably simply wanted to dodge the draft. But many of these fleeing Russians promptly discovered that they were not necessaril…
To Run the World
What would it feel like To Run the World? The Soviet rulers spent the Cold War trying desperately to find out. In this panoramic new history of the conflict that defined the postwar era, Sergey Radchenko provides an unprecedented deep dive into the psychology of the Kremlin's decision-making. He reveals how the Soviet struggle with the United States and China reflected its irreconcilable ambitions as a self-proclaimed superpower and the leader of…
Putin's Histories
One day in December 2019 I knew something was badly amiss. Russian President Vladimir Putin had called a meeting with the leaders of the Commonwealth of Independent States – the vague post-Soviet association of former Soviet republics that semi-defer to Russia – in order to discuss history. Not just discuss: he actually brought a thick stack of archival documents to the meeting, which, he said, demonstrated certain truths about the history of the…
The New Makers of Modern Strategy
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
Perspectives on The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa during the Cold War
Radoslav A. Yordanov, The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa during the Cold War: Between Ideology and Pragmatism. Lanham, MD: Lexington Books, 2016. 293 pp. $95.00.Editor's Note: This forum brings together six experts on Soviet policy toward the Third World to take part in forum about a book recently published in the Harvard Cold War Studies Book Series, The Soviet Union and the Horn of Africa during the Cold War, by Radoslav A. Yordanov. The c…
Nothing but humiliation for Russia’
This article recounts Russia’s response to NATO’s eastern enlargement. It argues that NATO enlargement was seen as perfectly acceptable in Moscow, as long as it was inclusive of Russia, which would gain in status as America’s key partner and ally. Once it became apparent that Russia would not be invited to join, the narrative changed to active opposition, as Boris Yeltsin sought domestic legitimacy from being perceived as thedefender of the natio…
Introduction to the Special Issue, Nato
This special issue examines NATO’s past with an eye to better understanding its present and its future. NATO’s history, now running over seventy years, can no longer be framed in Cold War terms alo
Chinese Society amid Mao's Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution
Frank Dikötter, The Cultural Revolution: A People's History, 1962–1976. London: Bloomsbury, 2016. 432 pp. £22.50.Editor's Introduction: Frank Dikötter's landmark three-volume history of the People's Republic of China (PRC) in the era of Mao Zedong is a compendium of self-inflicted catastrophes. Tens of millions of Chinese died of starvation during the famines produced by Mao's Great Leap Forward in the late 1950s and early 1960s; vast numbers of …
International Relations and Asia’s Northern Tier
The USSR, Asia, and the End of the Cold War
Sergey Radchenko, Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 383 pp.Editor's Note: The academic literature on the end of the Cold War has focused predominantly on the Cold War in Europe. Few studies have appeared of Soviet policy toward Asia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sergey Radchenko's book Unwanted Visionaries partly redresses this imbalance by offering a detaile…
MAD, not Marx
The revival of nuclear strategy in US policy and scholarship has been strengthened by arguments that the ‘nuclear revolution’ – the assumption that thermonuclear bombs and missiles had made major war too dangerous to wage – does not affect international behaviour as much as nuclear revolution advocates claim. This article shows that the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev indeed regarded nuclear war as too dangerous to wage, a decision which manifest…
International Relations and Asia's Northern Tier
Nation Building in South Korea
Deng Xiaoping, China, and the World
Alexander V. Pantsov, with Steven I. Levine, Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 610 pp. $27.50.Editor's Note: Deng Xiaoping had a crucial impact on China's role in the world in the latter half of the twentieth century. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai oversaw Chinese foreign policy during the country's first quarter century of Communist rule—initially establishing a close alliance with the Soviet Union, then tu…
Lost Chance for Peace
This article reconsiders the 1945 Chongqing peace talks between the Kuo-mintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a key turning point on the road to the Chinese civil war. The article shows that the talks represented a lost opportunity to avert the slide into fratricidal warfare. The CCP leader, Mao Zedong, under pressure from Iosif Stalin, was prepared to compromise with his rival Chiang Kai-shek on the basis of dividing China into two sepa…
Red on White’
The articles argues that in 1971–1973 North Korea’s leader Kim Il Sung used the Sino-American rapprochement and the Soviet-American détente to pursue Korean reunification on his terms; his aim was to ‘democratize’ and then ‘revolutionize’ South Korea and so achieve through dialogue what he failed to achieve through militancy. Kim’s game was based on a misreading of the political dynamics in South Korea and on misplaced confidence in North Korea’s…
China's foreign policy
China's foreign policy is somewhat of a hot topic and much has been published on it in recent years. However, Joseph Yu-shek Cheng's 630-page anthology offers readers little new insight. The volume boasts 15 chapters and a rather unwieldy and ineffectual introduction. Of the 15 chapters, 13 have been published before in one form or another, including one that was originally published in 1989. The first part of the book follows the trajectory of C…
Mongolia in the 2016–17 Electoral Cycle
This paper examines the full cycle of political power transitions and the dynamics of party competition during the 2016 parliamentary and 2017 presidential elections in Mongolia. It argues that the existence of multiple interlinked patronage networks and factionalism explains the persistence of the electoral democracy in Mongolia. The article focuses on the internal politics of the Democratic Party
Turkmenistan
On 12 February 2017 Turkmenistan held its presidential elections. The incumbent, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, won with an overwhelming margin in a manifestly unfree and unfair contest against a number of puppet candidates. This article argues that Berdimuhammedov’s continued interest in propping up a “democratic” façade shows that he remains deeply insecure about his own legitimacy as the country’s ruler. In addition, the recent election and earli…
Christopher Kaplonski. The Lama Question
The Lama Question: Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia sheds fresh light on the most tragic page in Mongolia’s recent history: the socialist regime’s mass killing of the Buddhist lamas in the 1930s. Rather than focusing on the years from 1937 to 1939—the climax of purges and repressions in Mongolia—Christopher Kaplonski takes a broader view, tracing the socialists’ approach to the “lama question” back to the Mongolian…
Mao
The subtitle of this new biography of Mao Zedong, the long-time leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine—“the real story”—implicitly challenges an earlier biography by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story (New York: Knopf, 2005). Chang and Halliday met with criticism in some scholarly circles for making far-fetched claims about Mao—in effect, for demonizing him. Pantsov and Levine, by cont…
The Cold War as a Lego
Journal Article The Cold War as a Lego Get access Ted Hopf, Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). 320 pp. + index. $39.95. Sergey Radchenko Sergey Radchenko Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 223–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht081 Published: 06 June 2013
Socialist Revolutions in Asia
July 01 2014 Socialist Revolutions in Asia: The Social History of Mongolia in the Twentieth Century IrinaMorozova, Socialist Revolutions in Asia: The Social History of Mongolia in the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge, 2009. 293 pp. Sergey Radchenko Sergey Radchenko Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Sergey Radchenko Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2014 by the Pres…
Gorbachev, Ozawa, and the Failed Back-Channel Negotiations of 1989–1990
This article analyzes the evolution, content, and fate of the back-channel negotiations between senior Soviet and Japanese officials in 1989–1990, a time of radical changes in most aspects of Soviet foreign policy. Sources that have recently become available—especially the private papers of Aleksandr Yakovlev and Anatolii Chernyaev and several recently published collections of documents—not only confirm what has long been suspected about this cri…
Mongolia in the 2016–17 Electoral Cycle
This paper examines the full cycle of political power transitions and the dynamics of party competition during the 2016 parliamentary and 2017 presidential elections in Mongolia. It argues that the existence of multiple interlinked patronage networks and factionalism explains the persistence of the electoral democracy in Mongolia. The article focuses on the internal politics of the Democratic Party
The New Makers of Modern Strategy
Nothing but humiliation for Russia’
This article recounts Russia’s response to NATO’s eastern enlargement. It argues that NATO enlargement was seen as perfectly acceptable in Moscow, as long as it was inclusive of Russia, which would gain in status as America’s key partner and ally. Once it became apparent that Russia would not be invited to join, the narrative changed to active opposition, as Boris Yeltsin sought domestic legitimacy from being perceived as thedefender of the natio…
MAD, not Marx
The revival of nuclear strategy in US policy and scholarship has been strengthened by arguments that the ‘nuclear revolution’ – the assumption that thermonuclear bombs and missiles had made major war too dangerous to wage – does not affect international behaviour as much as nuclear revolution advocates claim. This article shows that the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev indeed regarded nuclear war as too dangerous to wage, a decision which manifest…
A Cold War endgame or an opportunity missed? Analysing the Soviet collapse Thirty years later
Cold War History organised this roundtable to commemorate the thirtieth anniversary of the end of the Soviet Union – one of the two superpower poles that defined the Cold War confrontation and inte
Turkmenistan
On 12 February 2017 Turkmenistan held its presidential elections. The incumbent, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, won with an overwhelming margin in a manifestly unfree and unfair contest against a number of puppet candidates. This article argues that Berdimuhammedov’s continued interest in propping up a “democratic” façade shows that he remains deeply insecure about his own legitimacy as the country’s ruler. In addition, the recent election and earli…
Gorbachev, Ozawa, and the Failed Back-Channel Negotiations of 1989–1990
This article analyzes the evolution, content, and fate of the back-channel negotiations between senior Soviet and Japanese officials in 1989–1990, a time of radical changes in most aspects of Soviet foreign policy. Sources that have recently become available—especially the private papers of Aleksandr Yakovlev and Anatolii Chernyaev and several recently published collections of documents—not only confirm what has long been suspected about this cri…
It's Not Enough to Win
The article recounts the story of the secret negotiations between the International Olympic Committee (IOC), North and South Korea, in the run-up to the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The author contends that the Games offered an opportunity for the South Korean leadership to isolate and humiliate North Korea; that the head of IOC Juan Antonio Samaranch played an important – and conscious – role in the process; and that the trilateral talks in Lausanne, un…
Power Struggle in Socialist Mongolia
B. Nyambuu. Eh Ornoo l Gesen Irgen Bi (‘A citizen of the motherland I am’). Ulaanbaatar: Mongolyn Uls Töriin Helmegdegsediin Holboo. 2004, 260 pages. S. Jalan-Aajav, Tuulsan Zamd Törsön Bodol (‘Thoughts born on the passed road’) 2004. Ulaanbaatar: Sodpress, 144 pages
Sino-Soviet Relations and the Emergence of the Chinese Communist Regime, 1946–1950
Andrei Ledovskii, a long-time Soviet diplomat with a particular expertise on East Asian affairs, and several other Russian specialists on Soviet policy in the Far East have published a massive collection of declassified documents about Soviet policy vis-à-vis China in the first five years after World War II. The authors seek to show that the Communist victory in the Chinese civil war was attributable to Soviet fraternal help, that Josif Stalin wh…
Choibalsan's Great Mongolia Dream
This article is an account of Soviet and Mongolian efforts to manipulate a nationalist insurrection in Chinese Altai in 1944-45. For the Soviet leader Joseph Stalin this insurrection, led by a Kazakh nationalist, Osman Batyr, offered an excellent opportunity to attend to Soviet security interests in Xinjiang. For the Prime Minister of the Mongolian People's Republic (MPR), Khorloogiin Choibalsan, Osman represented an important investment in the p…
Japanese Business, Soviet Development, and Territorial Conflict, 1975-1985
The article takes a close look at the claim that the Japanese Foreign Ministry's policy of "inseparability of politics and economics" (seikei fukabun) hampered Soviet-Japanese economic relations in the 1980s. Taking three case-studies (South Yakut coal, Sakhalin oil and gas, and the Siberian pipeline), the author shows that the loss of interest on the part of Japanese business circles in investing in the Soviet economy had little to do with the p…
Pavel Stroilov, Behind the Desert Storm
October 01 2012 Pavel Stroilov, Behind the Desert Storm: A Secret Archive Stolen from the Kremlin That Sheds New Light on the Arab Revolutions in the Middle East. Chicago: Price World Publishing, 2011 Sergey Radchenko Sergey Radchenko Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Sergey Radchenko Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2013 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College …
Reply to the Commentaries
In this forum, three leading experts on Sino-Soviet relations and Mao Zedong's policy toward the Soviet Union offer their appraisals of Sergey Radchenko's Two Suns in the Heavens, The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962–1967, published by the Woodrow Wilson Center Press. The commentators praise many aspects of Radchenko's book, but Michael Sheng and to a lesser extent Qiang Zhai and Deborah Kaple wonder whether Radchenko has gone too far in …
It's Not Enough to Win
The article recounts the story of the secret negotiations between the International Olympic Committee (IOC), North and South Korea, in the run-up to the 1988 Seoul Olympics. The author contends that the Games offered an opportunity for the South Korean leadership to isolate and humiliate North Korea; that the head of IOC Juan Antonio Samaranch played an important – and conscious – role in the process; and that the trilateral talks in Lausanne, un…
The Cuban Missile Crisis
This article reviews major issues in the historiography of the Russian/Soviet side of the Cuban missile crisis, as it has developed since the early 1990s. Focusing on key works, including Fursenko and Naftali's One Hell of a Gamble and Mikoyan's Anatomi'ia Karibskogo Krizisa, the article explores three issues: why Nikita Khrushchev decided to send missiles to Cuba, why he resolved to withdraw them, and how close the world came to 'the brink'. The…
Gorbachev, Ozawa, and the Failed Back-Channel Negotiations of 1989–1990
This article analyzes the evolution, content, and fate of the back-channel negotiations between senior Soviet and Japanese officials in 1989–1990, a time of radical changes in most aspects of Soviet foreign policy. Sources that have recently become available—especially the private papers of Aleksandr Yakovlev and Anatolii Chernyaev and several recently published collections of documents—not only confirm what has long been suspected about this cri…
Ezra F. Vogel, Deng Xiaoping and the Transformation of China
The Cold War as a Lego
Journal Article The Cold War as a Lego Get access Ted Hopf, Reconstructing the Cold War: The Early Years, 1945-1958 (New York: Oxford University Press, 2012). 320 pp. + index. $39.95. Sergey Radchenko Sergey Radchenko Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Diplomatic History, Volume 38, Issue 1, January 2014, Pages 223–225, https://doi.org/10.1093/dh/dht081 Published: 06 June 2013
Socialist Revolutions in Asia
July 01 2014 Socialist Revolutions in Asia: The Social History of Mongolia in the Twentieth Century IrinaMorozova, Socialist Revolutions in Asia: The Social History of Mongolia in the Twentieth Century. New York: Routledge, 2009. 293 pp. Sergey Radchenko Sergey Radchenko Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article Information Sergey Radchenko Online ISSN: 1531-3298 Print ISSN: 1520-3972 © 2014 by the Pres…
Mao
The subtitle of this new biography of Mao Zedong, the long-time leader of the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), by Alexander Pantsov and Steven Levine—“the real story”—implicitly challenges an earlier biography by Jung Chang and Jon Halliday, Mao: The Unknown Story (New York: Knopf, 2005). Chang and Halliday met with criticism in some scholarly circles for making far-fetched claims about Mao—in effect, for demonizing him. Pantsov and Levine, by cont…
Christopher Kaplonski. The Lama Question
The Lama Question: Violence, Sovereignty, and Exception in Early Socialist Mongolia sheds fresh light on the most tragic page in Mongolia’s recent history: the socialist regime’s mass killing of the Buddhist lamas in the 1930s. Rather than focusing on the years from 1937 to 1939—the climax of purges and repressions in Mongolia—Christopher Kaplonski takes a broader view, tracing the socialists’ approach to the “lama question” back to the Mongolian…
International Relations and Asia's Northern Tier
Nation Building in South Korea
Deng Xiaoping, China, and the World
Alexander V. Pantsov, with Steven I. Levine, Deng Xiaoping: A Revolutionary Life. New York: Oxford University Press, 2015. 610 pp. $27.50.Editor's Note: Deng Xiaoping had a crucial impact on China's role in the world in the latter half of the twentieth century. Mao Zedong and Zhou Enlai oversaw Chinese foreign policy during the country's first quarter century of Communist rule—initially establishing a close alliance with the Soviet Union, then tu…
Lost Chance for Peace
This article reconsiders the 1945 Chongqing peace talks between the Kuo-mintang and the Chinese Communist Party (CCP), a key turning point on the road to the Chinese civil war. The article shows that the talks represented a lost opportunity to avert the slide into fratricidal warfare. The CCP leader, Mao Zedong, under pressure from Iosif Stalin, was prepared to compromise with his rival Chiang Kai-shek on the basis of dividing China into two sepa…
Red on White’
The articles argues that in 1971–1973 North Korea’s leader Kim Il Sung used the Sino-American rapprochement and the Soviet-American détente to pursue Korean reunification on his terms; his aim was to ‘democratize’ and then ‘revolutionize’ South Korea and so achieve through dialogue what he failed to achieve through militancy. Kim’s game was based on a misreading of the political dynamics in South Korea and on misplaced confidence in North Korea’s…
China's foreign policy
China's foreign policy is somewhat of a hot topic and much has been published on it in recent years. However, Joseph Yu-shek Cheng's 630-page anthology offers readers little new insight. The volume boasts 15 chapters and a rather unwieldy and ineffectual introduction. Of the 15 chapters, 13 have been published before in one form or another, including one that was originally published in 1989. The first part of the book follows the trajectory of C…
Mongolia in the 2016–17 Electoral Cycle
This paper examines the full cycle of political power transitions and the dynamics of party competition during the 2016 parliamentary and 2017 presidential elections in Mongolia. It argues that the existence of multiple interlinked patronage networks and factionalism explains the persistence of the electoral democracy in Mongolia. The article focuses on the internal politics of the Democratic Party
Turkmenistan
On 12 February 2017 Turkmenistan held its presidential elections. The incumbent, Gurbanguly Berdimuhammedov, won with an overwhelming margin in a manifestly unfree and unfair contest against a number of puppet candidates. This article argues that Berdimuhammedov’s continued interest in propping up a “democratic” façade shows that he remains deeply insecure about his own legitimacy as the country’s ruler. In addition, the recent election and earli…
International Relations and Asia’s Northern Tier
The USSR, Asia, and the End of the Cold War
Sergey Radchenko, Unwanted Visionaries: The Soviet Failure in Asia at the End of the Cold War. New York: Oxford University Press, 2014. 383 pp.Editor's Note: The academic literature on the end of the Cold War has focused predominantly on the Cold War in Europe. Few studies have appeared of Soviet policy toward Asia in the late 1980s and early 1990s. Sergey Radchenko's book Unwanted Visionaries partly redresses this imbalance by offering a detaile…
MAD, not Marx
The revival of nuclear strategy in US policy and scholarship has been strengthened by arguments that the ‘nuclear revolution’ – the assumption that thermonuclear bombs and missiles had made major war too dangerous to wage – does not affect international behaviour as much as nuclear revolution advocates claim. This article shows that the Soviet leader Nikita Khrushchev indeed regarded nuclear war as too dangerous to wage, a decision which manifest…
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