SERHEII PLOKHY - A COMPLETE HISTORY OF UKRAINE AND RUSSIA'S WAR SINCE 2014

SERHEII PLOKHY - A COMPLETE HISTORY OF UKRAINE AND RUSSIA'S WAR SINCE 2014

Serheii Plokhy, legendary historian and author, provides a comprehensive overview of the origins of Ukraine and Slavic cultures, Ukrainians history of both independent statehood and subjugation to Russia, the role of language as a tool for imperialism, and how Ukraines tradition of pluralism has evolved in recent times into a nation fully capable of fighting its war of independence.

Serheii Plokhy is legendary in Ukraine and in academic circles worldwide, widely considered to be the greatest living expert in Ukrainian history. He is prolific, with a book coming out every year for the last 20 years. His book, The Gates of Europe, A History of Ukraine, is widely considered to be the definitive history of Ukraine.
Plokhy is the Mykhailo Kruszewski, Professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard since 2013 where he has served as the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute, where he leads a group of scholars working on Mapa the digital atlas of Ukraine. He was born Ukrainian and between 1983 and 1991, Plokhii taught at the University of Dnipropetrovsk, where he was promoted to the rank of full professor and held a number of administrative positions during perestroika. In 1996, after a number of visiting appointments as the Ramsey Tompkins Professor of Russian history at the University of Alberta, Plokhy joined the staff of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, where he founded the Research Program on Religion and Culture. As part of the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research he participated in the publication of the English-language translation of Mykhailo Hrushevskys History of Ukraine-Russia. Plokhys books have been translated into a number of languages, including Albanian, Belarusian, Chinese, Estonian, Greek, Finnish, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian, and won numerous awards and prizes.

PUBLISHED BOOKS

• Plokhy, Serhii. The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine, Oxford University Press, 2002. ISBN 978-0-19-924739-4
• Plokhy, Serhii. Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography, Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2003. ISBN 978-0-916458-95-9
• Plokhy, Serhii and Frank E. Sysyn. Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2003. ISBN 978-1-895571-36-3
• Plokhy, Serhii. Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History, University of Toronto Press, 2005. ISBN 978-0-8020-3937-8
• Plokhy, Serhii. The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus, Cambridge University Press, 2006. ISBN 978-0-521-86403-9
• Plokhy, Serhii. Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past , University of Toronto Press, 2008. ISBN 978-0-8020-9327-1
• Plokhy, Serhii. Yalta: The Price of Peace, Viking Adult, 2010. IS