The famous American historian Joseph Bradley, interviewed by Elena Sinelnikova, has answered a number of questions on his life, previous and current researches, and historian profession, such as: How you became a historian? What did attract you in the history of Russia? Why then you went in your research to history of the most prominent learned societies in the Russian Empire? How difficult was it to work with documents of scientific societies in Russian archives? What are the features of Russian scientific societies that distinguish them from scientific societies in other countries? What role do scientific societies play in the modern scientific community (national and international)? What do you think about scientific conferences and congress in the modern era, and especially at the current time, when most scientific events are transferred to the online? What impression was made on you by the Soviet people when you were in the Soviet Union for the first time? What changed in Post-Soviet Russia in the best direction and in the worse one in comparison with the USSR? How did your relationship with Soviet/Russian historians develop, and how did your relationship with Russian colleagues change in light of the deteriorating relationship between Russia and the US? What has changed for last decades in historical education in the US? What research do you do now? What new articles and books are you going to write?