Serhii Plokhii (also spelled Plokhy) is the Mykhailo S. Hrushevs'kyi Professor of Ukrainian History and director of the Ukrainian Research Institute (HURI) at Harvard University. A leading authority on the region, he has published extensively in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. He is the author of numerous books, including "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
