Nina Khrushcheva (Russian: Нина Хрущёва, IPA: [xrʊˈɕːɵvə] is a professor of International Affairs at The New School in New York City, and a Contributing Editor to Project Syndicate, an "Association of Newspapers Around the World".

[1][2] Khrushcheva was born in Moscow, Russian SFSR, and is the great-granddaughter (and adoptive granddaughter) of former leader of the Soviet Union Nikita Khrushchev.

She is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and a recipient of Great Immigrants: The Pride of America Award from Carnegie Corporation of New York.

She is the author of Imagining Nabokov: Russia Between Art and Politics[6] (Yale UP, 2008) and The Lost Khrushchev: A Journey into the Gulag of the Russian Mind (Tate, 2014), co-author of In Putin's Footsteps: Searching for the Soul of an Empire Across Russia's Eleven Time Zones (St. Martin's Press, 2019) and (in Russian) "Nikita Khrushchev: An Outlier of the System" (Никита Хрущев: вождь вне системы) (Diletant.media, 2024).

[7] In October 2022, she said, alluding to George Orwell's novel 1984, that in "Putin’s Russia, war is peace, slavery is freedom, ignorance is strength and illegally annexing a sovereign country’s territory is fighting colonialism.