#415 – Serhii Plokhy: History of Ukraine, Russia, Soviet Union, KGB, Nazis & War

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
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Transcript: https://lexfridman.com/serhii-plokhy-transcript EPISODE
LINKS: Serhii's X: https://x.com/splokhy Serhii's Website:
https://history.fas.harvard.edu/people/serhii-plokhii Harvard
Ukrainian Research Institute: https://huri.harvard.edu/ Serhii's
Books: https://amzn.to/3OS2EqK 2006 - The Origins of the Slavic
Nations 2010 - Yalta: The Price of Peace 2012 - The Cossack Myth:
History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires 2014 - The Last
Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union 2015 - The Gates of
Europe: A History of Ukraine 2016 - The Man with the Poison Gun: A
Cold War Spy Story 2017 - Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and
the Making of the Russian Nation 2018 - Chernobyl: History of a
Tragedy 2021 - Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
2021 - The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present 2022 -
Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disaster 2023 - The
Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History PODCAST INFO: Podcast
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the episode. On some podcast players you should be able to click
the timestamp to jump to that time. (00:00) - Introduction (09:10)
- Collapse of the Soviet Union (25:19) - Origins of Russia and
Ukraine (38:22) - Ukrainian nationalism (46:04) - Stepan Bandera
(1:15:05) - KGB (1:30:03) - War in Ukraine (2:06:19) - NATO and
Russia (2:17:22) - Peace talks (2:31:09) - Ukrainian Army head
Valerii Zaluzhnyi (2:37:46) - Power and War (2:48:37) - Holodomor
(2:55:09) - Chernobyl (3:05:43) - Nuclear power (3:15:20) - Future
of the world