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Serhii Plokhy

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Ukrainian-American historian (born 1957)
Serhii Plokhy
Сергій Плохій
Born (1957-05-23)23 May 1957 (age 68)
Gorky, Russian SFSR, Soviet Union
Academic work
DisciplineHistorian
InstitutionsHarvard University
Main interests

Serhii Mykolayovych Plokhy[a] (Ukrainian:Сергій Миколайович Плохій; born 23 May 1957) is a historian and author. He is theMykhailo Hrushevsky professor[b] of Ukrainian history atHarvard University, where between 2013 and 2025 he also served as the director of theHarvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

Early life and education

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Serhii Plokhy was born inNizhny Novgorod (then called Gorkiy),RSFSR, to Ukrainian parents. He spent his childhood and school years inZaporizhzhia, Ukraine, where his family returned soon after his birth.[2]

Plokhy received his undergraduate degree in history and social sciences from theUniversity of Dnipropetrovsk (1980), where he studied under professors Mykola Kovalskyi and Yuriy Mytsyk, and his graduate degree from theRussian University of the Friendship of Peoples (1982), specializing in historiography and source studies. He received hishabilitation degree in history fromTaras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv in 1990.[3]

Academic career

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Between 1983 and 1991, Plokhy taught at the University of Dnipropetrovsk, where he was promoted to the rank of full professor and held a number of administrative positions duringperestroika. In 1996, after a number of visiting appointments as the Ramsey Tompkins Professor of Russian history at theUniversity of Alberta, Plokhy joined the staff of the university'sCanadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, where he founded the Research Program on Religion and Culture. As part of the Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research, he participated in the publication of the English-language translation ofMykhailo Hrushevsky'sHistory of Ukraine-Rus'.

In 2007, Plokhy was named the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard. Since 2013, he has served as the director of theHarvard Ukrainian Research Institute, where he leads a group of scholars working onMAPA: The Digital Atlas of Ukraine, an online,GIS-based project.[2]

Research and publications

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Plokhy's research and writing deal with the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with special emphasis on Ukraine. His first monograph,The Papacy and Ukraine, was among the few books published in the Soviet Union to deal with the history of the papacy as an academic subject rather than an object of atheistic propaganda. Among Plokhy's best known contributions to the study of early modern history isThe Origins of the Slavic Nations, a broad survey of the history of the region which rejects primordialist ideas that postulate the existence of either one or three—Russian, Ukrainian, and Belarusian—East Slavic nationalities before the rise of nationalism. Instead, it proposes an alternative scheme of the development of pre-modern identities of the Eastern Slavs.

Plokhy's research on the history of the Cold War era resulted in the publication ofYalta: The Price of Peace andThe Last Empire, where Plokhy challenged the interpretation of thecollapse of the Soviet Union as an American victory in theCold War, instead arguing Ukraine and Russia were the two republics responsible for the end of the Soviet Union.[2]

Honors and awards

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Plokhy's books have been translated into a number of languages, including Albanian, Belarusian, Chinese (classical and simplified)[citation needed], Czech, Estonian, Greek, Finnish, Italian, Korean, Lithuanian, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Spanish, and Ukrainian, and won numerous awards and prizes.[citation needed]

The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union won the 2015Lionel Gelber Prize for the world's best non-fiction book in English on global issues and the 2015Pushkin House Russian Book Prize.Chernobyl won the 2018Baillie Gifford Prize (formerly the Samuel Johnson Prize).[4] Much of Plohky's evidence in the book comes from published sources, but "he tells the story with great assurance and style, and the majority of his material appears here for the first time in English," wrote Tobie Mathew inLiterary Review.[5]

In 2009, Plokhy received the Early Slavic Studies Association Distinguished Scholarship Award, and in 2013 he was named the Walter Channing Cabot Fellow at the Faculty of Arts and Sciences of Harvard University for scholarly eminence in the field of history.[6] In 2015 Serhii Plokhy received theAntonovych prize,[7] and in 2018 theShevchenko National Prize (Ukraine).[8] In 2024 he was awarded the Arenberg Prize for History for his bookThe Russo-Ukrainian War.[9]

In 2025 Plokhy received an honorary degree fromOxford University.[10]

Books

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See also

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References

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  1. ^Serhii Plokhy (2015) "The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine" New York: Basic Books
  2. ^abcWoloschuk, Peter (April 15, 2007)."Serhii Plokhii named to history chair at Harvard University"(PDF).The Ukrainian Weekly. pp. 10, 17. Archived fromthe original(PDF) on 2018-05-14. Retrieved2010-10-29.
  3. ^"Serhii Plokhii | HAA Travels - Study Leaders | Harvard Alumni Association | Harvard Alumni Affairs & Development (AA&D)". Alumni.harvard.edu. Archived fromthe original on 2010-06-14. Retrieved2010-10-29.
  4. ^"Serhii Plokhy's Chernobyl wins The Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, 2018". Baillie Gifford Prize. November 14, 2018. RetrievedNovember 15, 2018.
  5. ^Mathew, Tobie (May 2018)."Disaster by Design". Literary Review. Retrieved28 February 2023.
  6. ^2015 Gelber Prize Winner Press ReleaseArchived 2015-09-10 at theWayback Machine
  7. ^Bihun, Yaro (November 20, 2015)."Serhii Plokhy honored with Antonovych Award".The Ukrainian Weekly. RetrievedJanuary 1, 2022.
  8. ^"Serhii Plokhii Wins Prestigious Shevchenko National Prize".huri.harvard.edu. February 15, 2018. RetrievedJanuary 1, 2022.
  9. ^"XVIIth Prizes for History "Duke d'Arenberg"".Foundation Arenberg. December 6, 2024. RetrievedDecember 10, 2024.
  10. ^"Honorary degrees awarded at Encaenia 2025 | University of Oxford".www.ox.ac.uk. 2025-06-25. Retrieved2025-07-03.
  11. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2010).The Cossacks and religion in early modern Ukraine. Oxford scholarship online. Oxford: Oxford Univ. Press.ISBN 978-0-19-924739-4.
  12. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2002).Tsars and Cossacks: a study in iconography. Harvard papers in Ukrainian studies. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Univ. Press.ISBN 978-0-916458-95-9.
  13. ^Plokhy, Serhii; Sysyn, Frank E. (2003).Religion and nation in modern Ukraine. Edmonton: Canadian Inst. of Ukrainian Studies Press.ISBN 978-1-895571-36-3.
  14. ^Plohìj, Sergìj Mikolajovič (2005).Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the writing of Ukrainian history. Toronto Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-8020-3937-8.
  15. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2006).The origins of the Slavic nations: premodern identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus. Cambridge, UK ; New York: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-0-521-86403-9.
  16. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2008).Ukraine and Russia: representations of the past. Toronto ; Buffalo: University of Toronto Press.ISBN 978-0-8020-9327-1.
  17. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2010).Yalta: The Price of Peace. East Rutherford: Penguin Publishing Group.ISBN 978-0-670-02141-3.
  18. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2012).The Cossack myth: history and nationhood in the age of empires. New studies in European history. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.ISBN 978-1-107-02210-2.
  19. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2014).The last empire: the final days of the Soviet Union. New York, NY: Basic Books.ISBN 978-0-465-05696-5.
  20. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2015).The gates of Europe: a history of Ukraine. New York: Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group.ISBN 978-0-465-05091-8.
  21. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2016).The man with the poison gun: a Cold War spy story. New York: Basic Books.ISBN 978-0-465-03590-8.
  22. ^Plohìj, Sergìj Mikolajovič (2017).Lost kingdom: the quest for empire and the making of the Russian nation, from 1470 to the present (1st ed.). New York, N.Y: Basic Books.ISBN 978-0-465-09849-1.
  23. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2018-05-15).Chernobyl : history of a tragedy. London.ISBN 9780241349038.OCLC 1032170907.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: location missing publisher (link)
  24. ^Groskop, Viv (2018-05-20)."Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy by Serhii Plokhy review – death of the Soviet dream".the Guardian. Retrieved2018-05-24.
  25. ^Plohìj, Sergìj Mikolajovič (2019).Forgotten bastards of the Eastern Front: American airmen behind the Soviet lines and the collapse of the Grand Alliance. New York: Oxford University Press.ISBN 978-0-19-006101-2.
  26. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2021).Nuclear Folly: a History of the Cuban Missile Crisis (1st ed.). Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated.ISBN 978-0-393-54081-9.
  27. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2021).The frontline: essays on Ukraine's past and present. Harvard series in Ukrainian studies. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press for the Ukrainian Research Institute.ISBN 978-0-674-26882-1.
  28. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2022).Atoms and ashes: a global history of nuclear disasters (First ed.). New York, NY: W.W. Norton & Company.ISBN 978-1-324-02104-9.
  29. ^Plokhy, Serhii (2023).The Russo-Ukrainian War: the Return of History (1st ed.). Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar: W. W. Norton & Company, Incorporated.ISBN 978-1-324-05119-0.

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Notes

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  1. ^Also spelledPlokhii
  2. ^Mykhailo Hrushevsky (1866 - 1934), the founder of modernUkrainian historiography, is the scholar for whom the chair of Ukrainian history at Harvard University is named.[1]
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