Serhii Plokhy
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Serhii Plokhy is a historian of Ukraine and Eastern Europe.
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5 facts on wiqqi (opens wiqqi.app)
- Born: 23 May 1957, Gorky (now Nizhny Novgorod); grew up in Zaporizhzhia (opens wiqqi.app)
- Position: Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard (from 2007) (opens wiqqi.app)
- Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute: Director from 2013 to 2025 (opens wiqqi.app)
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Where public figures publish, and what they are on record saying.
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30 beliefs on korrents (opens korrents.com)
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The collapse of communism, the end of the Cold War and the end of the Soviet Union were three different processes, and people constantly confuse them. (opens korrents.com)
“Very often people confuse three different processes that were taking place in the late ’80s and early ’90s, and the one was the collapse of communism as ideology. Another was the end of the Cold War. And the third one…”
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The fall of the Soviet Union was not a one-off event but the continuation of the disintegration of the Russian Empire that began in 1917 and was merely arrested by the Bolsheviks. (opens korrents.com)
“And the Soviet collapse is continuation of the disintegration of the Russian Empire that started back in 1917, that was arrested for some period of time by the Bolsheviks, by the Communist ideology, which was…”
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Russian nationalism turned out to be as destructive to the multinational Soviet state as Ukrainian, Georgian or Estonian nationalism was. (opens korrents.com)
“So the most important story for me, this is the story of the continuing collapse of the Russian Empire and the rise of not just local nationalism, but also rise of Russian nationalism that turned out to be as a…”
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The collapse of communism, the end of the Cold War and the end of the Soviet Union were three different processes, and people constantly confuse them. (opens korrents.com)
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5 recommendations on rcmnd (opens rcmnd.app)
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Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War (opens rcmnd.app)
“He is a political scientist, and the book is very well organized and well written. It explains a lot about the two countries and their political development”
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Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (opens rcmnd.app)
“If people are interested in the subject, that’s where I suggest they start.”
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Ukraine's Nuclear Disarmament: A History (opens rcmnd.app)
“our understanding of the Budapest Memorandum and what is happening today is absolutely incomplete without this very important book.”
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Ukraine and Russia: From Civilized Divorce to Uncivil War (opens rcmnd.app)