Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: <a href="https://huri.harvard.edu/">https://huri.harvard.edu/</a>
Serhii&#8217;s Books: <a href="https://amzn.to/3OS2EqK">https://amzn.to/3OS2EqK</a>
2006 &#8211; The Origins of the Slavic Nations
2010 &#8211; Yalta: The Price of Peace
2012 &#8211; The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
2014 &#8211; The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
2015 &#8211; The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
2016 &#8211; The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
2017 &#8211; Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
2018 &#8211; Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
2021 &#8211; Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2021 &#8211; The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine&#8217;s Past and Present
2022 &#8211; Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disaster
2023 &#8211; The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
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(00:00) &#8211; Introduction
(09:10) &#8211; Collapse of the Soviet Union
(25:19) &#8211; Origins of Russia and Ukraine
(38:22) &#8211; Ukrainian nationalism
(46:04) &#8211; Stepan Bandera
(1:15:05) &#8211; KGB
(1:30:03) &#8211; War in Ukraine
(2:06:19) &#8211; NATO and Russia
(2:17:22) &#8211; Peace talks
(2:31:09) &#8211; Ukrainian Army head Valerii Zaluzhnyi
(2:37:46) &#8211; Power and War
(2:48:37) &#8211; Holodomor
(2:55:09) &#8211; Chernobyl
(3:05:43) &#8211; Nuclear power
(3:15:20) &#8211; Future of the world

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#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

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