Registration REQUIRED by 4pm on November 6, 2026 to attend this event.
Please join the Harriman Institute for a lecture by Nina Khrushcheva. Moderated by Timothy Frye.
Since 2022, the Kremlin has worked to recast its invasion of Ukraine as a national “special military operation,” using state media, a revived cult of Stalin, and the militarization of everyday life. Yet five years on, when the distant “operation” in Ukraine turned into the “war” that only a few in Russia can ignore, Putin’s propaganda has shown only partial success. Many Russians, especially the young, still find independent information, and make an effort of a quiet normal life that goes on largely apart from the war. Drawing on her frequent travels across Russia during these years, Nina Khrushcheva examines where the Kremlin’s message has taken hold, where it has failed, and what that might mean for Russia after Putin.
Nina Khrushcheva is a professor of International Affairs at The New School and an editor of, and a contributor to, Project Syndicate: Association of Newspapers Around the World. She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations. Her articles have appeared in Foreign Affairs, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Financial Times and other international publications. She is the author of several books in English and Russian including In Putin’s Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia’s Eleven Time Zones (2019) (co-authored) and Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics (2008). Her latest book (in Russian) is a biography of her great-grandfather, Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System (Diletant, 2024).
Image: Peredelkino, August 2022
