Serhii Plokhy
Author of Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
About the Author
Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and the director of the university's Ukrainian Research Institute. He is the author of numerous books, including The Last Empire, for which he received the Lionel Gelber Prize, and Chernobyl, the recipient of the show more Baillie Gifford Prize, Plokhy lives in Burlington, Massachusetts. show less
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Works by Serhii Plokhy
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (2019) 46 copies, 1 review
The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (2006) 45 copies
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present (Harvard series in ukrainian studies; Book 81) (2021) 17 copies
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- Canonical name
- Plokhy, Serhii
- Legal name
- Plokhy, Serhii Mykolaiovych
- Other names
- Плохій, Сергій
Plokhiĭ, Serhiĭ Mykolaĭovych
Plohìj, Sergìj Mikolajovič
Plochij, Serhij Mykolajovyč
Plokhi, Sergi Mikolaïovitch
Плохий, Сергей Николаевич - Birthdate
- 1957-05-23
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- USA
- Country (for map)
- USA
- Birthplace
- Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Places of residence
- Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
- Education
- University of Dnipropetrovsk
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv - Occupations
- historian
- Organizations
- Harvard University
University of Dnipropetrovsk
University of Alberta - Short biography
- Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, where he was also named Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in 2013. A leading authority on Eastern Europe, he has lived and taught in Ukraine, Canada, and the United States. He has published extensively in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. For three successive years (2002-2005) his books won first prize of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies.
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Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe by Serhii Plokhy
Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe is as far as I know impartial and meticulously researched. However, in the Titans of Nuclear - Chernobyl Miniseries podcast I've heard the number of radiation caused health problems is far less than what this book presents. In any case, the Chernobyl disaster is an attestation to the importance of proper communication and vigilance against authoritarianism.… (more)
A good summing up, up to the present moment.
A good overview of the socio-political causes and effects of the Chernobyl disaster, drawing a strong through-line from the incident to the fall of the USSR a few years later while continuing to acknowledge the broader cultural factors.
DNFing this at Three Mile Island.
This is a collection of scholarly "essays"/accounts of some of the world's worst nuclear accidents. There's nothing terribly bad about this book, but I'm just finding that it's not super engaging and rather dry. I'm glad I read part of it, because I learned some interesting facts about Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym and Windscale - the disasters I knew the least about. As far as TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima, I know there's better-written accounts I'd rather invest my time on.… (more)
This is a collection of scholarly "essays"/accounts of some of the world's worst nuclear accidents. There's nothing terribly bad about this book, but I'm just finding that it's not super engaging and rather dry. I'm glad I read part of it, because I learned some interesting facts about Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym and Windscale - the disasters I knew the least about. As far as TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima, I know there's better-written accounts I'd rather invest my time on.… (more)
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