Serhii Plokhy

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Serhii Plokhy ( Ukrainian Сергій Миколайович Плохій Serhij Mykolajowytsch Plochij ; born May 23, 1957 in Gorki , Soviet Union ) is a Ukrainian - American historian and university professor.

Life

Serhii Plokhy was born in Gorki, today's Nizhny Novgorod, Russia, to Ukrainian parents. He spent his childhood and youth in Zaporizhia . In 1980, he graduated in history and social sciences at the University in Dnipropetrovsk , and then he studied until 1982 historiography and source studies at the Russian Peoples' Friendship University in Moscow . He received his PhD in 1990 from the Taras Shevchenko National University in Kiev .

From 1983 to 1991 he taught at the University of Dnipropetrovsk and became a full professor there. From 1996 he was Professor of History at the University of Alberta , where he founded the Research Program for Religion and Culture. He was also the deputy director of the Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies and The Peter Jacyk Center for Ukrainian Historical Research at that institute. Since 2007, Serhii Plokhy, succeeding Omeljan Pritsak , Mykhailo Hrushevsky has been Professor of Ukrainian History and Director of the Ukrainian Research Institute at Harvard University . He is considered the leading authority on the history of Eastern Europe and Ukraine in Canada and the United States.

Awards

Works

  • Plokhy, Serhii: The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine , Oxford University Press, 2002, ISBN 978-0-19-924739-4
  • Plokhy, Serhii: Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography , Ukrainian Research Institute, Harvard University, 2003, ISBN 978-0-916458-95-9
  • Plokhy, Serhii and Frank E. Sysyn: Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine , Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies, 2003, ISBN 978-1-895571-36-3
  • Plokhy, Serhii: Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History , University of Toronto Press, 2005, ISBN 978-0-8020-3937-8
  • Plokhy, Serhii: The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus , Cambridge University Press, 2006, ISBN 978-0-521-86403-9
  • Plokhy, Serhii: Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past , University of Toronto Press, 2008, ISBN 978-0-8020-9327-1
  • Plokhy, S. M: Yalta: The Price of Peace , Viking Adult, 2010, ISBN 0-670-02141-5
  • Plokhy, Serhii: The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires , Cambridge University Press, 2012, ISBN 978-1107022102
  • Plokhy, Serhii: The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union . New York: Basic Books, 2014. 520 pp., ISBN 978-0-465-05696-5
  • Plokhy, Serhii: El último imperio. Los días finales de la Unión Soviética . Turner, 2015. 576 pp., ISBN 978-8416142101
  • Plokhy, Serhii: The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine . New York: Basic Books, 2015. - 395 pp., ISBN 978-0-465-05091-8
  • Plokhy, Serhii: "Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation." New York: Basic Books, 2017. - 398 pp., ISBN 978-0-465-09849-1
  • Plokhy, Serhii: Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance , Oxford University Press, 2019, ISBN 9780190061029 .

Web links

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Serhii Plokhy on the Harvard University website ; accessed on March 10, 2018 (English)
  2. ↑ a b Short biography of Serhii Plokhy on goodreads.com ; accessed on March 10, 2018 (English)
  3. ↑ lecture announcement and brief profile Serhii Plokhy on the website of the National Art Museum of Ukraine ; accessed on March 10, 2018 (Ukrainian)
  4. ↑ Article in THE UKRAINIAN WEEKLY from April 15, 2007, pages 10 and 17 ; accessed on March 10, 2018 (English)
  5. ^ Lionel Gelber Prize 2015 . In: munkschool.utoronto.ca; accessed on March 15, 2019
  6. ^ Website of the Taras Shevchenko Prize Committee
personal data
SURNAME Plokhy, Serhii
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Plochij, Serhij Mykolajowytsch (transcribed in Ukrainian); Плохій, Сергій Миколайович (Ukrainian)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Ukrainian-American historian and university professor
DATE OF BIRTH May 23, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Gorky , Soviet Union