Serhii Plokhy
Autore di Chernobyl: The History of a Nuclear Catastrophe
Sull'Autore
Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and the director of the university's Ukrainian Research Institute. He is the author of numerous books, including The Last Empire, for which he received the Lionel Gelber Prize, and Chernobyl, the recipient of the mostra altro Baillie Gifford Prize, Plokhy lives in Burlington, Massachusetts. mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: Serhii Plokhy
Opere di Serhii Plokhy
Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front: American Airmen behind the Soviet Lines and the Collapse of the Grand Alliance (2019) 45 copie
The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine, and Belarus (2006) 40 copie
The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine’s Past and Present (Harvard series in ukrainian studies; Book 81) (2021) 17 copie
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Plokhy, Serhii
- Nome legale
- Plokhy, Serhii Mykolaiovych
- Altri nomi
- Плохій, Сергій
Plokhiĭ, Serhiĭ Mykolaĭovych
Plohìj, Sergìj Mikolajovič
Plochij, Serhij Mykolajovyč
Plokhi, Sergi Mikolaïovitch
Плохий, Сергей Николаевич - Data di nascita
- 1957-05-23
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- Nizhny Novgorod, Russia
- Luogo di residenza
- Arlington, Massachusetts, USA
- Istruzione
- University of Dnipropetrovsk
Peoples' Friendship University of Russia
Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv - Attività lavorative
- historian
- Organizzazioni
- Harvard University
University of Dnipropetrovsk
University of Alberta - Breve biografia
- Serhii Plokhy is 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.
Utenti
Recensioni
Liste
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 35
- Utenti
- 2,690
- Popolarità
- #9,550
- Voto
- 4.1
- Recensioni
- 48
- ISBN
- 161
- Lingue
- 16
- Preferito da
- 2
This is a collection of scholarly "essays"/accounts of some of the world's worst nuclear accidents. There's nothing terribly bad about this book, but I'm just finding that it's not super engaging and rather dry. I'm glad I read part of it, because I learned some interesting facts about Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym and Windscale - the disasters I knew the least about. As far as TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima, I know there's better-written accounts I'd rather invest my time on.… (altro)