George Thuronyi from the Library of Congress speaks with Nina Khrushcheva, who will appear at the 2014 National Book Festival on August 30 in Washington, D.C.

Biography

Author and scholar Nina Khrushcheva is associate professor in the Graduate Program of International Affairs at the New School and a senior fellow of the World Policy Institute, where she is director of the Russia Project. In her part memoir, part investigative book, “The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind,” she gives a personal account of her family history and the story of her grandfather Leonid Khrushchev, eldest son of former Soviet premier Nikita Khrushchev.