* Serhii Plokhy - The Russo-Ukrainian War and other works (18 books)

SERHII PLOKHY (b. 1957) is an award-winning Ukrainian historian and author.  He is currently the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.  His books have won numerous awards, including the Ballie Gifford Prize and the Shevchenko National Prize (2018).

Plokhy's research and writing deal with the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with special emphasis on Ukraine.  Among his best known contributions to the study of early modern history is THE ORIGINS OF THE SLAVIC NATIONS (2006), a broad survey of the history of the region which rejects primordialist ideas that postulate the existence of either one or three—Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian—East Slavic nationalities before the rise of nationalism.  Instead, it proposes an alternative scheme of the development of pre-modern identities of the Eastern Slavs.

Plokhy's research on the history of the Cold War era resulted in the publication of YALTA: THE PRICE OF PEACE (2010) and THE LAST EMPIRE (2014), where he challenged the interpretation of the collapse of the Soviet Union as an American victory in the Cold War, instead arguing Ukraine and Russia were the two republics responsible for the end of the Soviet Union.

His most recent work, THE RUSSO-UKRAINIAN WAR: THE RETURN OF HISTORY (2023), offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the already apparent and possible future consequences.  Ukraine, Plokhy argues, has remained central to Russia’s idea of itself even as Ukrainians have followed a radically different path.  He concludes that "the Ukrainian nation will emerge from this war more united and certain of its identity than at any other point in its modern history."


The following books are in ePub and/or PDF format as indicated:

* Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (Norton, 2022) – ePub
* Chernobyl (Basic Books, 2018) – ePub + PDF
* The Cossack Myth (Cambridge, 2012) – PDF
* Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine (Oxford, 2001) – PDF
* Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front (Oxford, 2019) – ePub + PDF
* The Frontline: Ukraine’s Past and Present (Harvard, 2021) – ePub + PDF
* The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (Basic Books, 2021) – ePub
* The Last Empire (Basic Books, 2014) – ePub + PDF
* Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism... (2017) – ePub + PDF
* The Man with the Poison Gun (Basic Books, 2016) – ePub
* Nuclear Folly: History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (Norton, 2021) – ePub + PDF
* The Origins of the Slavic Nations (Cambridge, 2006) – PDF
* The Russo-Ukrainian War (Norton, 2023) – ePub
* Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography (HURI, 2002) – PDF
* Ukraine and Europe [ed.] (Toronto, 2017) – PDF
* Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past (Toronto, 2008) – PDF
* Unmaking Imperial Russia (Toronto, 2005) – PDF
* Yalta: The Price of Peace (Viking, 2010) – ePub


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