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Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian historian at Harvard University, director of the Ukrainian Research Institute, and an author of many books on history of Eastern Europe, including his latest book The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History. Please support this podcast by checking out our sponsors:
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\nHarvard Ukrainian Research Institute: https://huri.harvard.edu/
\nSerhii's Books: https://amzn.to/3OS2EqK
\n2006 - The Origins of the Slavic Nations
\n2010 - Yalta: The Price of Peace
\n2012 - The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
\n2014 - The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union
\n2015 - The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine
\n2016 - The Man with the Poison Gun: A Cold War Spy Story
\n2017 - Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation
\n2018 - Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
\n2021 - Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
\n2021 - The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present
\n2022 - Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disaster
\n2023 - The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
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\nOUTLINE:
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\n(00:00) - Introduction
\n(09:10) - Collapse of the Soviet Union
\n(25:19) - Origins of Russia and Ukraine
\n(38:22) - Ukrainian nationalism
\n(46:04) - Stepan Bandera
\n(1:15:05) - KGB
\n(1:30:03) - War in Ukraine
\n(2:06:19) - NATO and Russia
\n(2:17:22) - Peace talks
\n(2:31:09) - Ukrainian Army head Valerii Zaluzhnyi
\n(2:37:46) - Power and War
\n(2:48:37) - Holodomor
\n(2:55:09) - Chernobyl
\n(3:05:43) - Nuclear power
\n(3:15:20) - Future of the world