Cold War historian who traced the Sino-Soviet split to inequality within the alliance and clashing national interests
ideological disagreements only served as a cover for the power struggle… in which ideology was merely a means to an end.
Sergey Radchenko is a Soviet-born British historian of the Cold War, known for his work on Sino-Soviet relations. His first book, Two Suns in the Heavens (2009), argued that the split was driven less by ideology than by the structural inequality of the alliance and Chinese resentment, becoming the major counter-argument to Lorenz Lüthi's ideology-centered interpretation.
Career Timeline
- 2001BSc International Relations, LSE
- 2005PhD International History, LSE
- 2005–2007Assistant Professor of History, Pittsburg State University
- 2007–2009Fellow in International History, LSE
- 2009–2013Lecturer, University of Nottingham Ningbo China
- 2013–2016Reader, Aberystwyth University
- 2016–2021Professor of International Relations, Cardiff University
- 2021–Wilson E. Schmidt Distinguished Professor, Johns Hopkins SAIS