Sergei M. Plekhanov (Russian: Сергей Михайлович Плеханов; 7 May 1946) is a Canadian political scientist who is Associate Professor of Politics at York University in Toronto, Ontario, Canada.
[1] From 1985 to 1990, Plekhanov participated in the development of reform policies of Mikhail Gorbachev and took part in Russia's democratic movement.
[2] He has taught as a visiting professor at the University of California, Irvine, and Occidental College in (Los Angeles).
[1] His areas of interest included Russian politics and foreign policy; history of Russian communism and the Cold War; problems of post-communism; US-Russian relations; regional aspects of the crisis in Afghanistan.
From 1989 to 1991, Plekhanov served as Soviet Affairs Consultant with CBS News,[1] and from 1991 to 1992, he was a consultant for the production of the HBO television film Stalin, starring Robert Duvall.