Sergey Radchenko ✓

@DrRadchenko · Washington, Bologna, Nanjing · joined 27 Jan 2014

Historian of the Cold War and after. Rupert Murdoch Distinguished Professor @KissingerCenter @SAISHopkins. Now on Substack https://t.co/loAavCmK89

72 788Followers

3 311Following

26 062Posts total

175.6KViews on collected posts

Against accounts of the same size

4 posts from the last 90 days, next to the 10K–100K follower range. right around the median for its follower range.

Median views8 349this account3 383median for 10K–100K

Reach, %11.47%this account10.96%median for 10K–100K

Engagement, %1.09%this account1.40%median for 10K–100K

Metric	This account	Median for 10K–100K	Ratio
Median views per post	8 349	3 383	2.47×
Reach (views ÷ followers)	11.47%	10.96%	1.05×
Engagement rate	1.09%	1.40%	0.78×

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Growth & engagement

How the posts we collected actually performed: views and reaction rate post by post, what the audience did with them, and where the follower count goes.

Views per post

97.7K4 May

11.7K29 Aug

58.5K31 Aug

2.6K2 Sep

5K3 Sep

Last 5 collected posts, oldest on the left. The scale is logarithmic: one post can outrun the rest a hundred times over.

Engagement rate per post

0.32%4 May

3.82%29 Aug

0.56%31 Aug

1.10%2 Sep

1.08%3 Sep

Reactions — likes, reposts, replies and quotes — divided by views. Median for 10K–100K accounts is 1.40%.

What the audience does

Likes66.7%964 in total

Reposts9.5%137 in total

Replies3.9%56 in total

Quotes1.0%14 in total

Bookmarks19.0%274 in total

Share of every reaction we collected for this account. Replies mean argument, reposts mean endorsement, bookmarks mean the post was worth keeping.

The follower curve appears once this account has two daily snapshots — we take one a day, and this one is on its first.

Latest posts

Now, here's a clever piece on a niche subject: https://t.co/TFExBB0YEf. 5K views · 40 likes · 9 reposts · 3 replies 03 Sep 2026 On the eve of my visit to the Baltics for interviews for the Hoover/Stanford Russia-Ukraine project, reading this fantastic book by @olivernmoody: https://t.co/bvi2SK3abH. 2.6K views · 23 likes · 5 reposts · 1 replies 02 Sep 2026 He is not wrong. The best-case scenario for Putin would be to be handed over to The Hague. For protection. They don't hang people there. And the court case would make for a wonderful oral history. I am just fantasizing of course. The historian must have her sources. https://t.co/ 58.5K views · 252 likes · 43 reposts · 23 replies 31 Aug 2026 The first read of the new academic year. https://t.co/2kt82ZEtnT 11.7K views · 381 likes · 61 reposts · 3 replies 29 Aug 2026 I will soon be starting a new academic project: a history of the war between Russia and Ukraine. I am to have the book published by 2032 (10th anniversary of Russia's full-scale invasion). 97.7K views · 268 likes · 19 reposts · 26 replies 04 May 2025