Professor Serhii Plokhii
Monday, June 22, 2015
Topic: Ukraine
Serhii Plokhii is Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University.
His research interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine. Teaches courses and seminars on early modern and modern East European history that engage major problems in the history of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Lithuania.
His latest work is The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union. Basic Books, 2014.
Prior Publications:
• The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires Cambridge University Press (2012)
• Yalta: The Price of Peace Viking/Penguin (2010; 2011)
• Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past University of Toronto Press (2008)
• The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Cambridge University Press (2006)
• Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History University of Toronto Press (2005)
• Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine (with Frank E. Sysyn) Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press (2003)
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