Russian to discuss Cold War policies
By Shannon Harris, ne news editor

     NE and SE campus students will learn about the ’60s Cold War policy in the USSR next month from a noted specialist.
     Sergei Khrushchev, son of former chairman of council of ministers of the Soviet Union, is a senior fellow at the Watson Institute for International Studies. He focuses his research on the former Soviet Union’s transition from a centralized to a decentralized society, as well as its transformation from a central to a market economy and its international security during this transition.
     His interests include the creation of a criminal society in Russia as well as the history of the Cold War and the turning points in relations between the United States and the Soviet Union in the Nikita Khrushchev, Dwight Eisenhower and John F. Kennedy periods. Another interest is the history of Soviet missiles and space development, in which he played an active role.
     Khrushchev has been a Senior Fellow since 1996 and a senior visiting scholar from 1991-96 at the Thomas J. Watson Jr. Institute for International Studies. In 1990, he was a fellow at the Institute of Politics, John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard, and from 1968-91, he served at the Control Computer Institute in Moscow. From 1958-68, he was an engineer, then deputy section head in charge of guidance systems for missile and space design.
     Dr. Khrushchev has his Soviet doctoral degree from the Ukrainian Academy of Science, a Ph.D. from the Moscow Technical University and an M.A. with distinction from the Moscow Electric Power Institute.
     Khrushchev also edited his father’s memoirs, which were published in the United States as Khrushchev Remembers: Last Testament and Khrushchev Remembers: Tapes of Glasnost. The full text of Nikita Khrushchev’s memoirs, People, Years, Power, was published in 1999 in four volumes by the Moscow News.
     Khrushchev is mentioned in Who’s Who in the World, International Who’s Who of Contemporary Achievements, International Authors and Writers, International Who’s Who of Intellectuals and Contemporary Authors Gala Research.
     In the Soviet Union, he received the Lenin prize for his research, the Prize of the Council of Ministers, several awards for achievements in space and computer research and six awards from the Soviet Union Engineering Society.
     He is a full member of the International Academy of Information, the Russian Space Academy, the Russian Society of Informatics and the Russian Engineering Society.
     Khrushchev is a commentator for the American and Pacific media and the author of 145 books and articles on engineering and computer science.
     Some of his better known books include Khrushchev on Khrushchev, Nikita Khrushchev: Crisis and Missiles, The Political Economy of Russian Fragmentation and Three Circles of Russian Market Reforms.
     His books are published in 12 languages.
     Khrushchev is currently working on an English translation of his father’s memoirs.