Serhii Plokhy

Ukrainian-American historian · Writers · Born 1957 · age 69

Serhii Mykolayovych Plokhy is a historian and author. He is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, where between 2013 and 2025 he also served as the director of the Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute.

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2022“The Kremlin’s dismembering of Ukraine in 2014 de facto removed millions of the most pro-Russian voters from Ukraine’s electoral rolls.”In their words1 February 2022New StatesmanRead the whole statement

2018Baillie Gifford PrizeAward2015“Both Ukrainians and Russians claim Yaroslav the Wise as one of their eminent medieval rulers, and his image appears on the banknotes of both countries.”In their wordsp 42Read the whole statement

“Lukianenko’s declaration referred to the thousand-year history of Ukrainian statehood, meaning the tradition established by Kyivan Rus’.”In their wordsp 320Read the whole statement

“The Revolution of Dignity and the war brought about a geopolitical reorientation of Ukrainian society.”In their wordsp 353Read the whole statement

Lionel Gelber PrizeAward1957Born23 May 1957

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Recognition of Ukrainians as a distinct nation in cultural but not political terms in the aftermath of the Revolution of 1917 challenged that vision.
1917 · p 350, Own words