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    Friedrich Asschenfeldt
    Hoover Fellow
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    Friedrich J. Asschenfeldt is a Hoover fellow and a historian of modern Russia. His research focuses on the interplay of economic policy, geopolitics, and authoritarian rule in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. He is currently completing his first book, which examines the strategic significance of food and agriculture in Russia and Ukraine throughout the twentieth century.

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Friedrich J. Asschenfeldt is a Hoover fellow and a historian of modern Russia. His scholarship focuses on the interplay of economic policy, geopolitics, and authoritarian rule in Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union. He explores these themes from a global perspective, with particular emphasis on Russia’s political and commercial relations with Germany, the United States, and China. His work also engages with the history of economic thought, militarism and war, and the weaponization of trade and finance.

Asschenfeldt is currently completing the manuscript of his first book, which examines Imperial Russia and the Soviet Union’s role in global grain markets and its transformation from the world’s largest exporter at the beginning of the 20th century to the biggest grain importer by the 1970s. Drawing on a wealth of archival sources from Europe and the Americas, the book sheds light on the geopolitical significance of food and agriculture in Russia and Ukraine and provides a novel account of Russia’s fraught participation in the world economy. Asschenfeldt is also coeditor of the Europe-Asia Studies special issue “Socialism and Capitalism through the Russian Prism” (January 2024).

Prior to his appointment as a Hoover fellow, he studied history and economics in Munich, Moscow, Budapest, and Princeton, where he earned his PhD in history in 2025.

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