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Chernobyl (HBO miniseries)
Craig Mazin / HBO (inferred)
“give some love to the HBO series; it was so incredibly well done”
“this is a good moment to give some love to the HBO series it made me... it was so incredibly well done”— Lex Fridman
The guest's own work
BookBy the guest
The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History
Serhii Plokhy
“the current war in Ukraine a book titled the rousa Ukrainian War The Return of History”— Lex Fridman
BookBy the guestISBN verified
The Origins of the Slavic Nations
Serhii Plokhy
“you wrote a book the origins of the Slavic Nations so let's go back into history what is the origin of uh Slavic Nations”— Lex Fridman
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Lost Kingdom
Serhii Plokhy
“but then there are other books like lost lost kingdom that where I I bring the story all the way up to today”— guest
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The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires
Serhii Plokhy
“you wrote the book The KAC myth history and nationhood in the Age of Empires it tells the story of an anonymous manuscript”— Lex Fridman
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The Last Empire
Serhii Plokhy
“you call the Soviet Union the last empire the book is called the last empire so is there something fundamental”— Lex Fridman
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The Man with the Poison Gun
Serhii Plokhy
“you wrote a book on the KGB spy budon shinski can you tell his story”— Lex Fridman
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The Frontline: Essays on Ukraine's Past and Present
Serhii Plokhy
“you wrote in your book titled uh the Frontline essays on Ukraine's past and present about the Russian question”— Lex Fridman
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Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy
Serhii Plokhy
“since you've written a book on Chernobyl and nuclear disaster this there's just a million possible conversations here”— Lex Fridman
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Atoms and Ashes: A Global History of Nuclear Disaster
Serhii Plokhy
“you wrote In the book in in Adams and Ash as a global history of nuclear disaster so technically nuclear energy is extremely safe”— Lex Fridman
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Nuclear Folly: A History of the Cuban Missile Crisis
Serhii Plokhy
“if you've written a book a great book on the Cuban Missile Crisis we came very close not to Just Another World War”— Lex Fridman
Also referenced (named, not recommended)
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The Gulag Archipelago
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“soen of course is the author of gag archipelago he's half Ukrainian what is the Russian question”— Lex Fridman
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Rebuilding Russia (How We Should Restructure Russia)
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
“his original idea and plan was presented in the essay that he published in 1990 was called how we should restructure Russia”— guest
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Ukraine Is Not Russia
Leonid Kuchma
“the president of Ukraine at that time lenit kuchma writes a book called uh Ukraine is not Russia”— guest
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Ukrainian Nationalism and Minority Faith
unknown (inferred)
“as one author formulated in the 1990s he wrote a book Ukrainian nationalism and minority Faith where the nationalism was a minority faith”— guest
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The Man with the Golden Gun
Ian Fleming (inferred)
“a spray pistol that eventually makes it into the bond uh novel The Man with the Golden Gun and that whole episode is a little bit reshaped”— guest
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