The Nuclear Age

by Serhii Plokhy, Unknown Author

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About the author

Serhii Plokhy is a Ukrainian and American historian. Plokhy is currently the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University, where he was also named Walter Channing Cabot Fellow in 2013. A leading authority on Eastern Europe, he has lived and taught in Ukraine, Canada, and the United States. He has published extensively in English, Ukrainian, and Russian. For three successive years (2002-2005) his books won first prize of the American Association for Ukrainian Studies.

For his Ukrainian-language profile, please see: Сергій Плохій

Reviews

[Nigel Moore]

From the master historian on Eastern European and nuclear events comes one of my favourite texts. I can’t put my finger on it but Plokhy manages to take you through dense history in an engaging and clear way.

It’s not Chernobyl but is up there.

Also it’s a great starting point to then go onto read his other books about the Cuban missile crisis, nuclear power and the issues of Ukraine now.