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Collocata al margine occidentale della steppa eurasiatica, l'Ucraina è stata per secoli una via d'accesso all'Europa. Una porta attraverso la quale sono transitate genti, merci e idee. Un punto d'incontro (e scontro) tra diverse culture e grandi imperi - romano e ottomano, asburgico e russo - che hanno lasciato la loro impronta e plasmato il paesaggio, il carattere e l'identità di una popolazione abituata da sempre a vivere tr...

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A harrowing account of Russia's occupation of the Chernobyl and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants, and the dangers of nuclear power colliding with warfare.

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 West has united, while Russia grows increasingly isolated. Serhii Plokhy, a leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, offers a definitive account of this conflict, its origins, course, and the a...

Urgent, compelling reading from the author of Chernobyl on the defining conflict of our times: do you know what is at stake in Ukraine?On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War, acclaimed Ukrainian-American historian Serhii Plokhy inevitably found him...

The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of Chernobyl, and Ukraine's contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.

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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 partial meltdown, and scientists feared an explosion that could spread radiation throughout the eastern United States. Thankfully, the explosion never took place-but the accident left deep scars in the Am...

On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War, acclaimed Ukrainian-American historian Serhii Plokhy inevitably found himself attempting to understand the deeper causes of the invasion, analysing its course and contemplating the wider outcomes.The Russo-Uk...

A 2023 HIGHLIGHT FOR: SUNDAY TIMES CULTURE * FINANCIAL TIMES * THE TIMES'The world's foremost historian of Ukraine. . . the chronicler of a country on the front lines of a seismic European war' Financial TimesOn 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War,...

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 West has united, while Russia grows isolated. Serhii Plokhy, leading historian of Ukraine and the Cold War, traces this conflict to post-Soviet tensions. Providing a broad historial context and an ex...

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 BirdBest-selling historian Serhii Plokhy returns with an illuminating exploration of the atomic age through the history of six nuclear disasters In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukush...

Welche Folgen hat Russlands Angriff in den kommenden Jahrzehnten für den Westen und die Welt? Dieses hochaktuelle, dringende Buch gibt Antworten auf entscheidende Fragen unserer Zeit.In seinem neuen Buch gibt der renommierte Historiker und Ost-Europa-Experte Serhii Plokhy Antworten darauf, wie Russlands Krieg die Weltordnung der nächsten Jahrzehnte verändern wird. Er erzählt von einem ukrainischen Volk, das als Frontstaat im jetzt anbrechenden...

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Das Hauptwerk des Harvard-Historikers Serhii Plokhy endlich auf Deutsch. Die Ukraine ein Land ohne eigene Geschichte? Der ukrainische Historiker von Weltrang Serhii Plokhy zeigt, wie mannigfaltig und dramatisch die Historie dieses Landes zwischen Europa und dem Osten ist. Nichts könnte derzeit aktueller sein. Mit dem Ukraine-Krieg hat eine neue Zeitrechnung in Europa begonnen. Im Kern geht es in dem Konflikt um die Geschichtsdeutung eines r...

In «Die Frontlinie» analysiert der Historiker Serhii Plokhy die entscheidenden Entwicklungen in der Geschichte der Ukraine und ihrer Beziehung zu Russland und dem Westen. Russlands Angriffskrieg kommt nicht aus dem Nichts. Die Begründung des Krieges und das dahinterstehende Narrativ greift auf jahrhundertealte Großmachtansprüche Russlands zurück, die es in der Vergangenheit immer wieder gestellt hat. In kenntnisreichen Essays zeigt er, wie vie...

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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 lessons of the most dangerous moment of the Cold War: the Cuban missile crisis. Serhii Plokhy's Nuclear Folly offers an international perspective on the crisis, tracing the tortuous decision-making that pro...

For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout, nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth.In Nuclear Folly, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Ni...

The Frontline collects essays in a companion volume to Plokhy's The Gates of Europe and Chernobyl. The essays present further analysis of key events in Ukrainian history, including Ukraine's relations with Russia and the West, the Holodomor and World War II, the impact of Chernobyl, and Ukraine's contribution to the collapse of the Soviet Union.