Dr. Igor Torbakov studied history at Moscow State University and the Ukrainian Academy of Sciences. He is a Senior Fellow at the Uppsala Institute for Russian and Eurasian Studies and at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs. He was a visiting researcher at the Kennan Institute, at Columbia and Harvard, at the Swedish Collegium for Advanced Study, the Finnish Institute of International Affairs, and at the German Council on Foreign Relations. His articles have appeared in Nationalities Papers, Ab Imperio, Demokratizatsiya, The Harriman Review, Transition Studies Review, Slavic & East European Information Resources, Mediterranean Quarterly, Scando-Slavica, Insight Turkey, Slavianovedenie, Turkish Review of Eurasian Studies, and The Finnish Journal on Russian and East European Studies.
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Serhii Plokhy: The Last Empire
BY THE AUTHOR OF CHERNOBYL: HISTORY OF A TRAGEDY, WINNER OF THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE 2018 WINNER OF THE PUSHKIN HOUSE RUSSIAN BOOK PRIZE 2015 On Christmas Day 1991 Mikhail Gorbachev resigned as pres …
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Serhii Plokhy: 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 f …
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Igor Torbakov: After Empire
Igor Torbakov explores the nexus between various forms of Russian political imagination and the apparently cyclic process of decline and fall of Russia’s imperial polity over the last hundred years. …
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Mychailo Wynnyckyj: Ukraine’s Maidan, Russia’s War
In early 2014, sparked by an assault by their government on peaceful students, Ukrainians rose up against a deeply corrupt, Moscow-backed regime. Initially demonstrating under the banner of EU integr …
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Serhii Plokhy: 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 …
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Serhii Plokhy: 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 …
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Giovanna Brogi Bercoff & Marko Pavlyshyn: Ukraine and Europe
Ukraine and Europe challenges the popular perception of Ukraine as a country torn between Europe and the east. Twenty-two scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia explore the complexities o …
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Giovanna Brogi Bercoff & Marko Pavlyshyn: Ukraine and Europe
Ukraine and Europe challenges the popular perception of Ukraine as a country torn between Europe and the east. Twenty-two scholars from Europe, North America, and Australia explore the complexities o …
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Serhii Plokhy: 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 …
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Serhii Plokhy: Lost Kingdom
An astonishingly wide-ranging history of Russian nationalism chronicling Russia’s yearning for Empire and how it has affected its politics for centuries In 2014, Russia annexed Crimea and attempted t …
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Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl
Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize 2018’An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics …
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Serhii Plokhy: 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 …
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Volodymyr Yermolenko: Ukraine in Histories and Stories
This fascinating collection of texts by contemporary Ukrainian writers, historians, philosophers, political analysts, and opinion leaders combines reflections on Ukraine’s history—or histories—and an …
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Serhii Plokhy: Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
‘The definitive history.…With his masterly book, Mr. Plokhy has sounded a warning bell.’ — The Economist A harrowing account of the Cuban missile crisis and how the US and USSR came to the brink of n …
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Serhii Plokhy: 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 …
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Serhii Plokhy: Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet all …
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Serhii Plokhy: Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front
The full story of the first and only time American and Soviets fought side-by-side in World War II At the conference held in in Moscow in October 1943, American officials proposed to their Soviet all …
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Serhii Plokhy: Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disasters
A chilling account of more than half a century of nuclear catastrophes, by the author of the “definitive” (Economist) Cold War history, Nuclear Folly. Almost 145, 000 Americans fled their homes in an …
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Serhii Plokhy: Ticăloșii Uitați Ai Frontului De Est
În noiembrie 1943, când rezultatul celui de-al Doilea Război Mondial nu fusese decis încă, Aliații aveau nevoie de un alt plan. Sugestia îndrăzneață făcută de americani sovieticilor era de a deschide …
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Serhii Plokhy: Die Frontlinie
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 komm …
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Serhii Plokhy: Das Tor Europas
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 un …
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Serhii Plokhy: 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 …
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Serhii Plokhy: Cernobil
„O cronică realizată cu o mână de maestru’ – New York Review of Books Premiul Pushkin House pentru Cartea Rusă 2019 Premiul Baillie Gifford pentru Non-Ficțiune 2018 „O cronică realizată cu o mână de …
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Serhii Plokhy: Der Angriff
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 …
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Serhii Plokhy: The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
“Compelling.… [E]rudite, objective and immensely readable.” —Ben Hall, Financial Times An authoritative history of Europe’s largest military conflict since World War II, from the New York Times best- …
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Serhii Plokhy: Portile Europei
De câţiva ani, Ucraina este prinsă într-o confruntare aprigă cu Rusia pentru a-şi prezerva integritatea teritorială şi independenţa politică. Dar conflictul de azi nu este decât cel mai recent episod …
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Serhii Plokhy: Pistolul cu otrava
„O lectură extraordinară pentru specialiști, dar și pentru amatorii de romane de spionaj deopotrivă.’ – Mark Kramer „Serhii Plokhy este unul dintre cei mai însemnați experți contemporani în istoria R …
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Serhii Plokhy: Russo-Ukrainian War
CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF THE YEAR BY THE FINANCIAL TIMES * TELEGRAPH * PROSPECT’The best account of the ongoing conflict its preconditions and its present-day horrors’ Prospect Do you know what is at stak …
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Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl Roulette: War in the Nuclear Disaster Zone
A harrowing account of Russia’s occupation of the Chernobyl and Zaporizhia nuclear power plants, and the dangers of nuclear power colliding with warfare. On February 24, 2022, the first day of Russia …
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Serhii Plokhy: 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 …
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Serhii Plokhy: Der Mann mit der Giftpistole
Im Herbst 1961 lief der KGB-Attentäter Bogdan Staschinski nach Westdeutschland über. Nachdem er der CIA seine Geheimnisse verraten hatte, wurde Staschinski vor Gericht gestellt. Der Prozess hatte unt …
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Serhii Plokhy: Chernobyl Roulette
‘A necessary book and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it’ Cal Flyn What if Chernobyl was just the beginning?The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl t …
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Marieluise Beck: Understanding Ukraine
The 2013–2014 Euromaidan Revolution’s call for justice, dignity, and liberty brought Ukraine, which had ’disappeared ’ behind the Iron Curtain for decades after the horrors of World War II, into the …
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