Serhii Plokhy: 7 books
The Last Empire
The Final Days of the Soviet Union
Language: English
Release Date: September 8, 2015
"A stirring account of an extraordinary moment." --Wall Street Journal
On Christmas Day, 1991, President George H. W. Bush addressed the nation to celebrate what he described as a historic American victory: Mikhail Gorbachev's resignation as Soviet prime minister and the subsequent...
Lost Kingdom
The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe, a new history of Russian imperialism
In 2014, Russia annexed the Crimea and attempted to seize a portion of Ukraine. While the world watched in outrage, this blatant violation of national sovereignty was only the latest iteration of a centuries-long...
Chernobyl
The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Language: English
Release Date: May 15, 2018
From a preeminent historian of Eastern Europe, the definitive history of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster
On the morning of April 26, 1986, Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Soviet Ukraine. Dozens died of...
The Gates of Europe
A History of Ukraine
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2017
"[An] exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country... leavened by aphorism and anecdote." --Wall Street Journal
Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy presents the authoritative history of Ukraine and its people from the time of Herodotus to the present crisis with Russia....
The Cossack Myth
History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
Language: English
Release Date: July 26, 2012
In the years following the Napoleonic Wars, a mysterious manuscript began to circulate among the dissatisfied noble elite of the Russian Empire. Entitled The History of the Rus', it became one of the most influential historical texts of the modern era. Attributed to an eighteenth-century Orthodox...
The Man with the Poison Gun
A Cold War Spy Story
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2016
In the fall of 1961, KGB assassin Bogdan Stashinsky defected to West Germany. After spilling his secrets to the CIA, Stashinsky was put on trial in what would be the most publicized assassination case of the entire Cold War. The publicity stirred up by the Stashinsky case forced the KGB to change...
