
Serhii Plokhii (Plokhy) is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard University. A leading authority on Ukraine, Russia, and Eastern Europe, he has published extensively on the international history of World War II and the Cold War. His books won numerous awards, including the Lionel Gelber Prize for the best English-language book on international relations, the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, and Duke d’Arenberg Prize in European History. His latest book, The Nuclear Age: An Epic Race for Arms. Power, and Survival will be released by W.W. Norton in US and Penguin in UK in October 2025.