A middle-aged man with gray hair, glasses, and a beard, wearing a navy blue suit, white shirt, and patterned tie, sitting at a wooden table against a plain white wall.

Serhii Plokhy

Mykhailo S. Hrushevs’kyi Professor of Ukrainian History, Harvard University

Serhii Plokhy is a scholar of Eastern European history with an emphasis on Ukraine, ranging from the early-modern to the modern period. He is the author of, among other books, Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History; Yalta: The Price of Peace; The Last Empire: The Final Days of the Soviet Union; The Lost Kingdom: The Quest for Empire and the Making of the Russian Nation; and The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.