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.

Plekhanov received a B.A. and an M.A. in International Relations from the Moscow State Institute of International Relations and a Ph.D. in history from the Institute for US and Canadian Studies.^[1] From 1988 to 1993, he was a Deputy Director of the Institute for US and Canadian Studies.^[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. He is currently writing a book on the history of US-Russian relations.

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.^[3]

Plekhanov holds the following positions:^[1]

• Associate Professor at the Department of Politics, York University
• Director, South and Central Asia Project, York Centre for Asian Research, York University

His published works include:^[4]

• "Russia and the West: Integration and Tensions" in: J.L.Black and Michael Johns (ed.) Russia after 2012: From Putin to Medvedev to Putin: continuity, change, or revolution? New York: Routledge, 2013
• “Russia – A Resurgent Power?”, in: J.L. Black and Michael Johns (ed.) From Putin to Medvedev: Continuity or Change? Manotick: Penumbra Press, 2009
• “Communist Party of the Russian Federation”, in: Bruce Adams, Edward Lazzerini and George Rhyne (eds.). The Supplement to the Modern Encyclopedia of Russian and Soviet History, Vol.5, Academic International Press, 2005
• “Organized Crime, Business, and the Russian State”, in: Felia Allum, Renate Siebert (ed.) Organized Crime and the Challenge to Democracy. Routledge, 2003
• “Market Geopolitics: Continuity and Change in Russian Foreign Policy”, in: Lenard Cohen, Brian Job, Alexander Moens (eds.) Foreign Policy Realignment in the Age of Terror. Toronto: The Canadian Institute of Strategic Studies, 2003
• “Civil-Military Relations in Post-Soviet Russia: Rebuilding the “Battle Order”?” (with David Betz), in: Natalie Mychajlyszyn, Harald von Riekhoff (ed.) The Evolution of Civil-Military Relations in East-Central Europe and the Former Soviet Union. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 2003
• “The Politics of ‘Mimicry’: The Case of Eastern Europe" (with Piotr Dutkiewicz), in: Albert Legault and Joel Sokolsky (ed.). The Soldier and the State in the Post Cold War Era. Kingston: Royal Military College of Canada, 2002
• Co-editor, with Harvey Simmons: Is Fascism History? Selected papers presented at the conference held at York University 28–29 October 1999. Toronto: Centre for International and Security Studies, York University, 2001
• "NATO Enlargement As An Issue in Russian Politics", in: Jacques Levesque (ed.) The Future of NATO: Enlargement, Russia, and European Security. Toronto: McGill-Queens University Press, 1999
• Co-author and co-editor, with John Logue and John Simmons: Transforming Russian Enterprises: From State Control to Worker Ownership. Westport: Greenwood Publishing Group, 1995
• Co-author and co-editor, with John Logue and John Simmons: Преобразование предприятий: американский опыт и российская действительность' ( "Enterprise Reform: The American Experience and the Russian Reality") - a revised and updated Russian edition of the above. Moskva, Veche-Persej, 1997)
• "Soviet Perceptions of Long-Term Western Developments, Goals and Constraints", in: Klaus Gottstein (ed.) Mutual Perceptions of Long-Term Goals. Can the United States and the Soviet Union Cooperate Permanently? Campus Verlag - Westview Press, 1991
• "Правый экстремизм и внешняя политика США" ("Right-Wing Extremism and US Foreign Policy"). Moscow: Nauka, 1987
• “Political Consciousness of Right Radicalism”, in: Eduard Batalov and Yuri Zamoshkin (ed.). Political Consciousness in the USA: Traditions and Modernity. Revised and expanded edition. Moscow: Progress Publishers, 1984

• Sergei Plekhanov at IMDb
• Peace Magazine Interview, 2001