2026 Robert Legvold: Political Science Researcher – H-Index, Publications & Awards

Research.com Recognitions

2005 - Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Overview

Robert Legvold is affiliated with Columbia University in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on social sciences, with a specialization in political science and international relations. The scientist's work covers themes related to nuclear issues and defense, Russia and Soviet political economy, as well as Eurasian exchange networks.

The key topics of their research include:

Nuclear Issues and Defense
Russia and Soviet political economy
Eurasian Exchange Networks

The main fields of study they contribute to are:

Social Sciences

Within these fields, their subfields of study include:

Political Science and International Relations
Anthropology

Legvold has a record of publications in prominent venues such as:

Russia in Global Affairs
Daedalus
USA & Canada Economics - Politics - Culture

Their recent published papers include:

Introduction: The Search for Strategic Stability in a New Nuclear Era (2020) in Daedalus
Nuclear Proliferation and Nuclear War (2022) in Russia in Global Affairs
Conclusion: Strategic Stability & Nuclear War (2020) in Daedalus
The Soviet Union Destroyed the West by Voluntarily Destroying Itself (2021) in Russia in Global Affairs
Thirty Years After: The Dialectics of Confrontation (2021) in Russia in Global Affairs

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Legvold include:

Christopher F. Chyba
Ivan Krastev
Chas W. Freeman
Kishore Mahbubani
İlter Turan

Recognition received in their career includes being named a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2005.

Best Publications

The Collective and the Individual in Russia

Robert Legvold;Oleg Kharkhordin

917
Citations
How Russia became a market economy

Robert Legvold;Anders Åslund

508
Citations
The Politics of Gender after Socialism

Robert Legvold;Susan Gal;Gail Kligman

371
Citations
Democratic Consolidation in Eastern Europe

Robert Legvold;Jan Zielonka;Alex Pravda

168
Citations
Armageddon Averted: The Soviet Collapse

Robert Legvold;Stephen Kotkin;Michael McFaul

135
Citations
A History of Twentieth-Century Russia

Robert Legvold

100
Citations
Russia and the Russians: A History

Robert Legvold;Geoffrey Hosking

100
Citations
The Baltic Revolution

Robert Legvold;Anatol Lieven

90
Citations
My Years With Gorbachev and Shevardnadze: The Memoir of a Soviet Interpreter

Robert Legvold;Pavel Palazchenko;Igor Korchilov

85
Citations
The Coming Russian Boom: A Guide to New Markets and Politics

Robert Legvold;Richard Layard;John Parker

77
Citations
Russian foreign policy in the twenty-first century and the shadow of the past

Robert Legvold

74
Citations
Thinking strategically : the major powers, Kazakhstan, and the Central Asian nexus

Robert Legvold

69
Citations
Statehood and Security: Georgia After the Rose Revolution

Bruno Coppieters;Robert Legvold

63
Citations
The Shield of Achilles: War, Peace, and the Course of History

Robert Legvold

23
Citations
The Soviet Tragedy: A History of Socialism in Russia, 1917-1991

Robert Legvold;Martin Malia

21
Citations
Afghanistan: The Soviet Invasion and the Afghan Response, 1979-1982

Robert Legvold;M. Hassan Kakar

12
Citations
The gates of Europe: : A history of Ukraine

Robert Legvold

4
Citations
The Time of the Gypsies

Robert Legvold;Michael Stewart

3
Citations
Democratization and Revolution in the U.S.S.R., 1985-1991

Robert Legvold;Jerry F. Hough

1
Citations
Russia under Western Eyes: From the Bronze Horseman to the Lenin Mausoleum

Robert Legvold;Martin E. Malia

0
Citations

Frequent Co-Authors

Michael Mandelbaum Johns Hopkins University

Anders Åslund Peterson Institute for International Economics

Jeffrey T. Checkel European University Institute

Walter Laqueur Center for Strategic and International Studies

Sabrina P. Ramet Norwegian University of Science and Technology

Zbigniew Brzezinski Center for Strategic and International Studies

M. Steven Fish University of California, Berkeley

Michael McFaul Stanford University

Richard Layard London School of Economics and Political Science

Andrei Shleifer Harvard University

External Links

Personal website of Robert Legvold

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