Dr. Dmitrii Asinovskii

Dr. Dmitrii Asinovskii received his Ph.D. from the University of Amsterdam, where he defended a dissertation: The Soviet Union and the Iranian Revolution. Knowledge, Ideology, and the End of Modernization Paradigms. He worked as a Global IAS fellow at the Institute of Advanced Study of the Central European University and a postdoctoral fellow at the School of Historical Studies of Tel Aviv University. His research interests include Soviet foreign policy, the Cold War in the Global South, Socialist revolutionary movements in the Third World, Soviet-Iranian relations, History of the KGB foreign intelligence, Soviet scholarship on the Middle East and Islam. Dr. Asinovskii’s recent publications include: “Rostislav Ulianovskii, the Tudeh Party of Iran, and Soviet attempts to set Iran on a non-capitalist path of development (1979-83), Cold War History (2023); “A Priest does not consider the toppling of the Shah as an option. The KGB and the revolution in Iran”, Iranian Studies (2022); “The Soviet Union and the Iranian Revolution. How Experts, Intelligence Services and Politicians of the Two Superpowers Missed the Birth of Islamic Fundamentalism”, Russia in Global Affairs (2018)