Books written by Serhii Plokhy
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The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present
See Iakovleva , Hetmanshchyna v druhii polovyni 50 - kh rokiv XVII stolittia , 433 . 9 See Litopys samovydtsia , 76 . Samuel Twardowski , Wojna Domowa z Kozaki i Tatary , Moskwą , potem Szwedami i z ...
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
This revised edition includes new material that brings this definitive history up to the present.
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The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
As award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy argues in The Gates of Europe, we must examine Ukraine's past in order to understand its fraught present and likely future.
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大国的崩溃: 苏联解体的台前幕后
本书挑战了关于冷战结束的传统观念,揭示了布什政府试图结束冷战,保全苏联作为其国际舞台上的重要伙伴的复杂游戏.作者着眼于事件中心的四个人物----乔治·布什,米哈伊尔·戈尔巴乔夫,鲍里斯·叶利钦,列昂尼德·克拉夫丘克,聚焦苏联最后五个月间发生的故事,正是这五个月改变了苏联的命运和世界的格局.
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Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen Behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance
The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War IIAt the conference held in Tehran November 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet allies a new operation in the effort to defeat ...
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The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
The fascinating story of The History of the Rus', one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era.
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The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine
In this pioneering study, Serhii Plokhy examines the confessionalization of religious life in the early modern period, and shows how Cossack involvment in the religious struggle between Eastern Orthodoxy and Roman Catholicisim helped shape ...
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Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History
Unmaking Imperial Russia examines Hrushevsky's construction of a new historical paradigm that brought about the nationalization of the Ukrainian past and established Ukrainian history as a separate field of study.
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The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus
This book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important ...
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
An authoritative and masterful account of Russian nationalism, Lost Kingdom chronicles the story behind Russia's belligerent empire-building quest.
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
( 1999 ) : 914–28 ; Josephson , Red Atom , 22-25 . 6. N. Dollezhal and Iu . Koriakin , “ Iadernaia energetika : dostizheniia , problemy , ” Kommunist , 1979 , no . 14 : 69 ; cf. N. Dollezhal and Iu .
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Drawing on a range of Soviet archival sources, including previously classified KGB documents, as well as White House tapes, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama and anxiety of those tense days, and provides a way for us to grapple with ...
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The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present
Scholarly discussion of the meaning and historical importance of the Pereiaslav Agreement resumed only in the late 1980s, following the advent of glasnost. Ukrainian historians overwhelmingly rejected the reunification paradigm, ...
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Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
An authoritative and masterful account of Russian nationalism, Lost Kingdom chronicles the story behind Russia's belligerent empire-building quest.
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The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
A prize-winning historian describes the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, dispelling the myth that the event was spurred on in part by the close relationship between George H.W. Bush and Mikhail Gorbachev. 20,000 first printing.
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Ukraine and Russia
If these are actually the beginnings of Ukrainian history, when does Russian history start? In Ukraine and Russia, Serhii Plokhy discusses many questions fundamental to the formation of modern Russian and Ukrainian historical identity.
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno.
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Czarnobyl
Na dachu znajdowały się rury z wodą do gaszenia pożarów i węże w pojemnikach, użyliśmy więc tych węży. (...) Dach był podziurawiony i gdybyśmy ... I na całym dachu leżały porozrzucane błyszczące, srebrzyste kawałki jakiegoś gruzu.
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The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
As prize-winning historian Serhii Plokhy reveals in The Last Empire, the collapse of the Soviet Union was anything but the handiwork of the United States.
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Lost Kingdom: A History of Russian Nationalism from Ivan the Great to Vladimir Putin
'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian ...