Serhii Plokhy, Author . Viking $29.95 (451p) ISBN 978-0-670-02141-3
Harvard historian Plokhy (Unmaking Imperial Russia
) enhances his stature as a scholar of modern Russia in this convincing revisionist analysis of the February 1945 Yalta conference. Plokhy makes sophisticated use of Soviet sources to make a case...
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Serhii Plokhy. Basic, $29.99 (496p) ISBN 978-0-465-05696-5
Plokhy, a professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, investigates the collapse of the Soviet Union, revealing the often brutal political chess game within the Kremlin that ended in President George H. W. Bush's address of the end of the...
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Serhii Plokhy. Basic, $29.99 trade paper (416p) ISBN 978-0-465-05091-8
Injecting appropriate nuance and complexity into a single-volume overview of 2,000 years of Ukrainian history is no small task, but Plokhy (The Last Empire), the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, approaches...
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Serhii Plokhy. Basic, $28.99 (384p) ISBN 978-0-465-03590-8
Plokhy (The Gates of Europe), professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, details the little-known story of KGB asset Bogdan Stashinsky, who in the late 1950s assassinated two prominent exiled Ukrainian nationalists living in West Germany,
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Serhii Plokhy. Basic, $32 (432p) ISBN 978-0-465-09849-1
Plokhy (The Man with the Poison Gun), director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, eloquently relates the historical ebbs and flows of Russian nationalism and imperialism. Condensing more than six centuries into 20 well-focused chapters,...
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Serhii Plokhy. Basic, $30 (432p) ISBN 978-1-541-61709-4
An artful storyteller, Plokhy (Lost Kingdom), director of Harvard’s Ukrainian Research Institute, melds Kremlin politics, nuclear physics, and human frailty into this spellbinding account of the 1986 explosion and fire at Chernobyl Nuclear Power...
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Serhii Plokhy. Norton, $35 (464p) ISBN 978-0-393-54081-9
Harvard history professor Plokhy (Forgotten Bastards) offers a comprehensive study of the 1962 Cuban missile crisis focused on the “misjudgments and misunderstandings” that nearly led to nuclear war. Bolstered by “ideological hubris” and afraid of...
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Serhii Plokhy. Norton, $30 (368p) ISBN 978-1-324-02104-9
Plokhy (Nuclear Folly), a professor of Ukranian history at Harvard, delivers a stunning survey of nuclear accidents from the 1954 Castle Bravo test on the Marshall Islands to the 2011 Fukushima meltdown. Contending that any consideration of nuclear...
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Serhii Plokhy. Norton, $30 (400p) ISBN 978-1-324-05119-0
Imperial nostalgia and miscalculation precipitated the war in Ukraine, according to this wide-ranging study. Harvard historian Plokhy (Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front) spends the book’s first half on the historical background of the 2022...
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