Atoms and Ashes
'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai Bird Best-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration ...
Intent to Destroy
'A masterpiece' Peter Pomerantsev 'Powerful' Serhii Plokhy 'Fascinating' Daily Telegraph A history of Russian violence waged against Ukraine across the centuries. Russia's brutal invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. And yet this...
The Gates of Europe
From award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy, The Gates of Europe is the definitive history of Ukraine that helps us understand the country''s past and the current crisis Located at the western edge of the Eurasian steppe, Ukraine has ...
Goodbye Eastern Europe
An epic history of the 'other' Europe, a place of conflict and coexistence, of faith and folklore. 'Do not rush to bid farewell to eastern Europe until reading this book. Meticulously researched and beautifully written.' Serhii Plokhy Eastern Euro...
Last Empire
World-renowned historian¿Serhii Plokhy¿presents a profoundly original, page-turning account of the Soviet Union's collapse BY THE AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSI...
Who Lost Russia?
'A must read for anyone interested in the future of Europe and the world as a whole.' Serhii Plokhy, author of The Last Empire An essential insight into Russia's relations with Ukraine, the US and beyond Why did Vladimir Putin launch his devastati...
The Origins of the Slavic Nations
This book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about...
The Cossack Myth
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...
The Origins of the Slavic Nations
This book documents developments in the countries of eastern Europe, including the rise of authoritarian tendencies in Russia and Belarus, as well as the victory of the democratic 'Orange Revolution' in Ukraine, and poses important questions about...
Lost Kingdom
'Brisk and thoughtful, this book could hardly be more timely' Dominic Sandbrook, BBC History Magazine, Books of the Year From a preeminent scholar of Eastern Europe and the prize-winning author of Chernobyl, the essential history of Russian imperi...
Chernobyl Roulette
The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of warOn 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Russian occupation of the plant had begun. It would last thirty-five days.Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also been there for the clean-up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation; plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women's Day despite all odds; Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors; and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook.Gripping and unforgettable, Chernobyl Roulette sounds the alarm about the dangers of nuclear sites in an unprecedented time, when plant workers are left to fight on their own while the world holds its breath. In a book that reads like a thriller, Serhii Plokhy tells a remarkable story about human nature, uncertainty and courage.
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
'Many books claim to tell an "unknown" story of the Second World War. Few of them actually do. Forgotten Bastards is a rare exception . . . This is gripping history' Duncan Weldon, Prospect A riveting story of World War II from the autho...
Tsars and Cossacks
Ukrainian Cossacks used icon painting to investigate their relationship not only with God but also their relationship with the Russian tsar. Could Emperor Peter I and his adversary in the Battle of Poltava (1709)-the Cossack Hetman Ivan Mazepa-be ...
The Russo-Ukrainian War - The Return of History
Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war-and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the...
Chernobyl Roulette - War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone
On February 24, 2022, the first day of Russia's all-out attack on Ukraine, armored vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. Russian occupation of the plant, which would last thirty-five days, had begun. Only the d...
The Nuclear Age - An Epic Race for Arms, Power and Survival
The nuclear age came into existence with the explosion of the first atomic bomb in the New Mexico desert on July 16, 1945. The inauguration of this new era was epitomized by the bomb's principal creator, J. Robert Oppenheimer, quoting the Bhagavad...
The Russo-Ukrainian War - The Return of History
Despite repeated warnings from the White House, Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 shocked the world. Why did Putin start the war-and why has it unfolded in previously unimaginable ways? Ukrainians have resisted a superior military; the...
Gates of Europe (Revised Edition) : A History of Ukraine
A New York Times bestseller, this definitive history of Ukraine is 'an exemplary account of Europe's least-known large country' (Wall Street Journal). As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today's crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine's sovereignty. Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine has been shaped by empires that exploited the nation as a strategic gateway between East and West--from the Romans and Ottomans to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. In The Gates of Europe, Plokhy examines Ukraine's search for its identity through the lives of major Ukrainian historical figures, from its heroes to its conquerors. This revised edition includes new material that brings this definitive history up to the present. As Ukraine once
Unmaking Imperial Russia
From the eighteenth century until its collapse in 1917, Imperial Russia ¿ as distinct from Muscovite Russia before it and Soviet Russia after it ¿ officially held that the Russian nation consisted of three branches: Great Russian, Little Russian (...
Ukraine and Russia
The question of where Russian history ends and Ukrainian history begins has not yet received a satisfactory answer. Generations of historians referred to Kyiv, the capital of Ukraine, as the starting point of the Muscovite dynasty, the Russian sta...
Frontline
The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, ...
Frontline
The Frontline presents a selection of essays drawn together for the first time to form a companion volume to Serhii Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. Here he expands upon his analysis in earlier works of key events in Ukrainian history, ...
Man with the Poison Gun
1961. The height of the Cold War. Just hours before work begins on the Berlin Wall, a KGB assassin and his young wife flee for the West before the Iron Curtain comes down and traps them in the East forever. This gripping story of real-life espiona...
Chernobyl
*WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NON-FICTION 2018* *WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE BOOK PRIZE 2019* 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' Viv Groskop, Observer 'A riveting account of human error and state duplicit...
Nuclear Folly
*Shortlisted for the Duke of Wellington Medal for Military History* 'An enthralling account of a pivotal moment in modern history. . . replete with startling revelations about the deception and mutual suspicion that brought the US and Soviet Union...
The Man with the Poison Gun
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 ...
Chernobyl
A Chernobyl survivor and the New York Times bestselling author of The Gates of Europe 'mercilessly chronicles the absurdities of the Soviet system' in this 'vividly empathetic' account of the worst nuclear accident in history (Wall Street Journal). 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 radiation poisoning, fallout contaminated half the continent, and thousands fell ill. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy draws on new sources to tell the dramatic stories of the firefighters, scientists, and soldiers who heroically extinguished the nuclear inferno. He lays bare the flaws of the Soviet nuclear industry, tracing the disaster to the authoritarian character of the Communist party rule, the regime's control over scientific information, and its emphasis on economic development over all else. Today, the risk of another Chernobyl looms in the
Nuclear Folly - A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lesson...
Atoms and Ashes - A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
Almost 145,000 Americans fled their homes in and around Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, in late March 1979, hoping to save themselves from an invisible enemy: radiation. The reactor at the nearby Three Mile Island nuclear power plant had gone into parti...
Nuclear Folly - A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Nearly thirty years after the end of the Cold War, today's world leaders are abandoning disarmament treaties, building up their nuclear arsenals, and exchanging threats of nuclear strikes. To survive this new atomic age, we must relearn the lesson...
Porten Till Europa - Ukrainas Historia
Ukraina betyder gränsland. Området norr om Svarta havet har verkligen varit en gränszon utanför och mellan imperier: det östromerska, det mongoliska, det polsk-litauiska, det Ottomanska, det Habsburgska och det ryska. Porten till Europa ger en sammanhållen skildring av Ukrainas mångskiftande historia, samt av den politiska, sociala och kyrkliga utvecklingen i området norr om Svarta havet med dess många och skiftande nationer och kulturinfluenser. Därmed är detta en, på svenska, unik bakgrund till inte bara dagens Ukraina utan till hela det forna Östblocket. Serhii Plokhy skriver för den intresserade allmänheten i spänstig berättarton, utan att ge avkall på akribi och stringens. Att han tar med faktorer som ekologi och geografiska förutsättningar i sina resonemang ger djup åt förståelsen för ett land så präglat av växlande naturförutsättningar: från Västukrainas skogbeklädda bergspartier till den sydliga svarta jorden och de många flodernas handels- och kontaktstråk. Porten till Europa publicerades första gången i USA 2015. Porten till Europa förenar akademisk auktoritet med berättarförmåga den är ofrånkomlig läsning för alla som vill förstå dagens Ryssland och Ukraina. Simon Sebag Montefiore Serhii Plokhy är författare och forskare med inriktning på östeuropeisk historia, och har skrivit ett flertal uppmärksammade böcker. Han innehar Mykhailo Hrushevsky-professuren i ukrainsk historia vid Harvard University, där han också är chef för Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.
Atoms and Ashes
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY SUNDAY TIMES AND HISTORY TODAY 'Absolutely stunning. . . a formidable achievement. A six-part historical thriller that is essential reading for both our politicians and the ordinary citizen' Kai Bird Best-selling hi...
Det rysk-ukrainska kriget : historiens återkomst, E-bok
24 februari 2022 vaknade världen upp till den chockerande nyheten att Ryssland hade invaderat Ukraina. Samtidigt som historikern Serhii Plokhy försökte få fram uppgifter om vänner och släktningar som plötsligt befann sig mitt i den största konflikten i Europa sedan andra världskriget, började han att fundera på krigets verkliga orsaker och rötter.Resultatet är en heltäckande historia om en konflikt som pågått sedan 2014 och som från grunden ändrat den geopolitiska ordning som styrt Europa sedan kalla kriget gick i graven. Serhii Plokhys bok är baserad på decennier av forskning och hans unika kännedom om regionen. Det rysk-ukrainska kriget – historiens återkomst är samtidshistoria av bästa märke, skriven av en av vår tids ledande experter på området.
Serbia
This new, thoroughly updated edition of Bradt's Serbia covers all the practical information you could need plus comprehensive details of Serbian history, geography, economy, politics and people, as well as food and wine, city life, hiking and outd...
Serbia
This is the first in-depth, English-language history of modern Serbia in nearly half a century. It covers the period from the Serbian state's revolutionary rebirth in the early nineteenth century, under the rebel leaders Karadorde Petrovic and Mil...
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