 Kiva Maidanik

Kiva Maidanik (in Russian Кива Львович Майданик, or Kiva Livovich Maidanik, January 13, 1929, Moscow – December 24, 2006) was a Soviet historian and political scientist, a researcher at the Institute of World Economy and International Relations of the Russian Academy of Sciences.He worked in Latin American studies, with interest in Cuba, Brazil, Nicaragua, Mexico, and Venezuela.