Serhii Plokhy

Serhii Plokhy is an intellectual, cultural, and international historian of Eastern Europe with an emphasis on Ukraine. He acts as Professor of Ukrainian History and as the Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University. He is the author of a host of books, including The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine (2015), The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union (2015), Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters (2022).