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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#349 – Bhaskar Sunkara: The Case for Socialism
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#347 – Michael Malice: Christmas Special
#346 – Ed Calderon: Mexican Drug Cartels
#345 – Coffeezilla: SBF, FTX, Fraud, Scams, Fake Gurus, Money, Fame, and Power
#344 – Noam Brown: AI vs Humans in Poker and Games of Strategic Negotiation
#343 – Roger Gracie: Greatest Jiu Jitsu Competitor of All Time
#342 – Todd Howard: Skyrim, Elder Scrolls 6, Fallout, and Starfield
#341 – Guido van Rossum: Python and the Future of Programming
#340 – Chris Tarbell: FBI Agent Who Took Down Silk Road
#339 – Climate Change Debate: Bjørn Lomborg and Andrew Revkin
#338 – Chamath Palihapitiya: Money, Success, Startups, Energy, Poker & Happiness
#337 – Destiny: Politics, Free Speech, Controversy, Sex, War, and Relationships
#336 – Ben Shapiro: Politics, Kanye, Trump, Biden, Hitler, Extremism, and War
#335 – Fiona Hill: Vladimir Putin and Donald Trump
#334 – Abbas Amanat: Iran Protests, Mahsa Amini, History, CIA & Nuclear Weapons
#333 – Andrej Karpathy: Tesla AI, Self-Driving, Optimus, Aliens, and AGI
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