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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EPISODE LINKS:
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Serhii’s Website: https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/serhii-plokhii
Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: https://huri.harvard.edu/
Serhii’s Books: https://amzn.to/3OS2EqK
2006 – The Origins of the Slavic Nations
2010 – Yalta: The Price of Peace
2012 – The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
2014 – The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
2015 – The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
2016 – The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
2017 – Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
2018 – Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
2021 – Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2021 – The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present
2022 – Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disaster
2023 – The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
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OUTLINE:
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(00:00) – Introduction
(09:10) – Collapse of the Soviet Union
(25:19) – Origins of Russia and Ukraine
(38:22) – Ukrainian nationalism
(46:04) – Stepan Bandera
(1:15:05) – KGB
(1:30:03) – War in Ukraine
(2:06:19) – NATO and Russia
(2:17:22) – Peace talks
(2:31:09) – Ukrainian Army head Valerii Zaluzhnyi
(2:37:46) – Power and War
(2:48:37) – Holodomor
(2:55:09) – Chernobyl
(3:05:43) – Nuclear power
(3:15:20) – Future of the world
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#249 – Albert Bourla: Pfizer CEO
#248 – Norman Naimark: Genocide, Stalin, Hitler, Mao, and Absolute Power
#247 – Jamie Metzl: Lab Leak Theory
#246 – Peter Woit: Theories of Everything and Why String Theory is Not Even Wrong
#245 – Tom Brands: Iowa Wrestling
#244 – Robert Crews: Afghanistan, Taliban, Bin Laden, and War in the Middle East
#243 – Kevin Systrom: Instagram
#242 – Ben Askren: Wrestling and MMA
#241 – Boris Sofman: Waymo, Cozmo, Self-Driving Cars, and the Future of Robotics
#240 – Neal Stephenson: Sci-Fi, Space, Aliens, AI, VR & the Future of Humanity
#239 – Niall Ferguson: History of Money, Power, War, and Truth
#238 – Francis Collins: National Institutes of Health (NIH)
#237 – Steve Viscelli: Trucking and the Decline of the American Dream
#236 – Jimmy Pedro: Judo and the Forging of Champions
#235 – Michael Mina: Rapid COVID Testing
#234 – Stephen Wolfram: Complexity and the Fabric of Reality
#233 – Carl Hart: Heroin, Cocaine, MDMA, Alcohol & the Role of Drugs in Society
#232 – Brian Greene: Quantum Gravity, Big Bang, Aliens, Life, Death, and Meaning
#231 – Alex Gladstein: Bitcoin, Authoritarianism, and Human Rights
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