#415 – Serhii Plokhy

04 Mar 2024

Books mentioned on Lex Fridman Podcast #415:

1. The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History by Serhii Plokhy
2. The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union by by Serhii Plokhy
3. The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus by Serhii Plokhy
4. Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation by Serhii Plokhy
5. The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires by Serhii Plokhy
6. The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story by Serhii Plokhy
7. The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present by Serhii Plokhy
8. Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
9. Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters by Serhii Plokhy
10. Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis by Serhii Plokhy
11. Ukraine is not Russia by Leonid Kuchma
12. Ukrainian Nationalism in the 1990s: A Minority Faith by Andrew Wilson

Serhii Plokhy, or Plokhii is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where he also serves as the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute. Wikipedia

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