Serhii Plokhii (also spelled Plokhy) is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University (HURI). A leading authority on the region, he has published extensively in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. He is the author of numerous books, including The Russo-Ukrainian War (2023), Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (2022), The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present (2021), Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (2021), Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen Behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (2019), Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe (2018), and Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation (2017).
Serhii Plokhii
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Faculty Associate
Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History / Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute , Harvard University
