Dr. Sergey Radchenko
Lecturer in History of American-Asian Relations
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Contact
Room315, Admin Building
199 Taikang East Road
Ningbo 315100
China
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Qualifications
PhD, International History 2001-2005 London School of Economics and Political Science,
BSc, International Relations 1999-2001 London School of Economics and Political Science
Expertise Summary
International history of the 20th century
Cold War
History of East Asia
History, politics and foreign policy of Russia
History of Mongolia and Central Asia
Nuclear History
Teaching
Undergraduate
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Making of Contemporary Europe
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China, Russia, and the US
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Origins of Capitalism
Postgraduate
China in International Relations
Research
Principal research interests
International history of the 20th century
Cold War
History of East Asia
History, politics and foreign policy of Russia
History of Mongolia and Central Asia
Nuclear History
Recent publications
BOOKS
Sergey Radchenko, Half a leap across an abyss: how Russia lost Asia, and the Cold War (New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, forthcoming)
Sergey Radchenko, Two Suns in the Heavens: The Sino-Soviet Struggle for Supremacy, 1962-1967 (Washington D.C. & Stanford: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Stanford University Press, 2009).
Campbell Craig and Sergey Radchenko, The Atomic Bomb and the Origins of the Cold War (New Haven: Yale University Press, 2008).
EDITED BOOKS
Artemy Kalinovsky and Sergey Radchenko (eds.), The End of the Cold War in the Third World: New Perspectives on Regional Conflict (London: Taylor and Francis, 2011).
ARTICLES
Sergey Radchenko, “Japanese Business, Soviet Development, and Territorial Conflict, 1975-1985,” The Asia Pacific Journal, Vol. 9, Issue 35, No. 1 (August 2011).
Sergey Radchenko, “Choibalsan’s Great Mongolia Dream,” Inner Asia, Vol. 11, No. 2 (Fall 2009), pp. 305-332.
Sergey Radchenko, “New Documents on Mongolia and the Cold War”, Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issue 16 (Woodrow Wilson Center: Washington D.C.: Fall 2007/Winter 2008), pp. 341-366.
Sergey Radchenko and David Wolff, “New Evidence on the Mao-Stalin relationship in 1947-1949”, Cold War International History Project Bulletin, Issue 16 (Woodrow Wilson Center: Washington D.C.: Fall 2007/Winter 2008), pp. 105-182.
Sergey Radchenko, “Building Bridges, Building Bridges: Soviet Moves in Korea, 1988-1991”, Report on the International Workshop on Foreign Relations of the Two Koreas during the Cold War Era (Seoul: The Institute for Far Eastern Studies, Kyungnam University, 2006).
Sergey Radchenko, “Mongolian Politics in the Shadow of the Cold War”, Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 8, Issue 1 (Winter 2005-06), pp. 95-119.
BOOK CHAPTERS
Sergey Radchenko, “North Korea and the end of the Cold War, 1985-1991” in Robert Wampler (ed.), Trilateralism and Beyond: Politics, Diplomacy and the Korean Security Dilemma During the Cold War and After (Kent State University Press, 2012), pp. 189-212.
Sergei Radchenko, “Iaponi'ia i (ne)razvitie Sibiri: mif politiki 'seikei fukabun', ” in G.A. Ivanov (ed.), Uroki Vtoroi Mirovoi Voiny i Sovremennost’ (Moscow: RPTs Ofort, 2011), 122-139.
Sergey Radchenko, “Stalin’s Mental Map” in Steven Casey and Jonathan Wright (eds.), Mental Maps in the Cold War Era (London: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2011), pp. 9-31.
Sergey Radchenko, “Inertia and Change: Soviet Policy toward Korea, 1985–1991” in Tsuyoshi Hasegawa (ed.), The Cold War in Asia, 1945-1991: Reappraisals (Woodrow Wilson Center Press & Stanford University Press, 2010), pp. 289-320.
Sergey Radchenko, “The Sino-Soviet Split”, in Odd Arne Westad & Melvyn Leffler (eds.), Cambridge History of the Cold War (Cambridge: Cambridge UP, 2010), pp. 349-372.
Sergei Radchenko, “Ustanovlenie Diplomaticheskikh Otnoshenii Mezhdu SSSR i Iuzhnoi Koreei” in A.Z. Zhebin (ed.), Korei’ia: Na Poroge Peremen (Moscow: IDV-RAN, 2008), pp. 295-300. [in Russian]
Sergej Radchenko, “Fehlwahrnehmungen in den chinesisch-sowjetischen Krisen 1966 bis 1969” in Bernd Greiner, Christian Th. Muller, Dierk Walter (eds.), Krisen im Kalten Krieg (Hamburg: Hamburger Edition, 2008), 343-368. [in German]
Sergey Radchenko, “The Sino-Soviet Alliance”, in Gordon Martel (ed.), Blackwell Companion to International History (Oxford: Blackwell, 2007), 366-378.
Sergey Radchenko, “Tactical Nuclear Weapons Regime: Is it legally binding” in Taina Susiluoto (ed.), Tactical Nuclear Weapons: Time for Control (Geneva: United Nations Publications, 2002).
OPINION PIECES AND COMMENTARIES
Sergey Radchenko, “Faking Beria,” The Times Literary Supplement, March 2, 2012, p. 13.
Sergey Radchenko, “China’s secrecy about its past could stifle its future,” The Washington Post, December 31, 2011. http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/chinas-secrecy-about-its-past-could-stifle-its-future/2011/12/21/gIQAd9FORP_story.html|
WORKING PAPERS
Sergey Radchenko, “Sport and Politics on the Korean Peninsula - North Korea and the 1988 Seoul Olympics,” North Korea International Documentation Project e-dossier, No. 3 (December 2011).
James Hershberg, Sergey Radchenko, Péter Vámos, and David Wolff, “The Interkit Story:
A Window into the Final Decades of the Sino-Soviet Relationship,” Cold War International History Project Working Paper, No. 63 (April 2011).
Balazs Szalontai and Sergey Radchenko, “North Korea’s Efforts to Acquire Nuclear Technology and Nuclear Weapons: Evidence from Russian and Hungarian Archives”, Cold War International History Project Working Paper, No. 53 (September 2006).
Sergey Radchenko, “The Soviet Union and the North Korean seizure of the USS Pueblo, Evidence from Russian Archives”, Cold War International History Project Working Paper, No. 47 (March 2005).
Sergey Radchenko, “The Soviets' best friend in Asia: the Mongolian dimension of the Sino-Soviet split”, Cold War International History Project Working Paper, No. 42 (November 2003).
BOOK REVIEWS
Sergey Radchenko, “Forum: Reassessing How the Sino-Soviet Split Unfolded, Reply to the Commentaries,” Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1 (Spring 2012), pp. 107-110.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Archie Brown, The Rise and Fall of Communism (HarperCollins, 2009) in Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 13, No. 1 (Winter 2011), 256-258.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Michael D. Gordin, Red Cloud at Dawn: Truman, Stalin, and the End of the Atomic Monopoly (New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2009), H-diplo (June 2010), http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-XI-28.pdf|.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Vladislav Zubok, Failed Empire: The Soviet Union in the Cold War from Stalin to Gorbachev (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007), in Cold War History, Vol. 9, No. 2 (May 2009): 303-304.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Xiaoyuan Liu, Reins of Liberation: An Entangled History of Mongolian Independence, Chinese Territoriality and Great Power Hegemony, 1911-1950 (Washington D.C.: Woodrow Wilson Press UP, 2006), in Journal of Asian History, Issue 42, No. 2 (2008): 214-216.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Lorenz M. Luthi, The Sino-Soviet Split: Cold War in the Communist World (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008), H-diplo (December 2008), http://www.h-net.org/~diplo/roundtables/PDF/Roundtable-IX-25.pdf|.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Michael S. Goodman, Spying on the Nuclear Bear: The Anglo-American Intelligence and the Soviet Bomb (Stanford: Stanford UP, 2007), H-diplo (October 2008), http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showrev.php?id=22874|.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Yuki Konagaya, Sanjaasuren Bayaraa and Ichinkhorloo Lkhagvasuren (eds.), A.D. Simukov: Trudy o Mongolii i dlia Mongolii, 2 vols., (Osaka: National Museum of Ethnology, 2007), in The Journal of Asian Studies, Vol. 67, No. 1 (February 2008): 305-307.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Odd Arne Westad and Sophie Quinn-Judge (eds.), The Third Indochina War: Conflict between China, Vietnam and Cambodia, 1972-79 (London and New York: Routledge, 2006), in East Asia: An International Quarterly, Volume 24 (2007): 345-348.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Qing Simei, From Allies to Enemies: Visions of Modernity, Identity, and US-China Diplomacy, 1945-1960 (Cambridge: Harvard UP, 2007) in China Quarterly, Vol. 191 (September 2007): 776-777.
Sergey Radchenko, “Sino-Soviet Relations and the Emergence of the Chinese Communist Regime, 1946–1950,” review of Andrei Ledovskii, Raisa Mirovitska’ia, and Vladimir Miasnikov (eds.), Russko-kitaiskie otnosheni’ia v XX veke, Vol. 5 (Moscow: Pamiatniki Istoricheskoi Mysli, 2005), in Journal of Cold War Studies, Vol. 9, No. 4 (Fall 2007), 115-124.
Sergey Radchenko, review of Sergo Miko’ian, Anatomi’ia Karibskogo Krizisa (Moscow: Academia, 2006) in Kritika: Explorations in Russian and Eurasian History, Volume 8, No. 4 (Fall 2007): 1–5.
Sergey Radchenko, “Power Struggle in Socialist Mongolia: Review of Two Political Memoirs” (review article), Inner Asia, Vol. 7, No. 2.
OTHER PUBLICATIONS
Sergey Radchenko, “The Territorial Dispute Between Japan and Russia in the Historical Perspective”, IFES Forum 06-10-2-1 (Institute of Far Eastern Studies, Seoul, October 2, 2007), online: http://ifes.kyungnam.ac.kr/study/ifes_forum_view.asp?ifesforumNO=211&page=1|.
Sergey Radchenko, “Sino-Russian Relations” and “Inner Mongolia” in David Pong (ed.), Encyclopedia of Modern China (Charles Scribner's Sons, 2009).