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The Russo-Ukrainian War
Serhii Plokhy
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Serhii Plokhy
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This book by Serhii Plokhy has come up 2 times on Lex Fridman. One of those mentions was a genuine on-air recommendation, not just a passing reference. The people who brought it up: Lex Fridman. The earliest mention we indexed is from 2024-03-04 and the most recent from 2025-01-05. Every occurrence below links to the episode page and to the exact second it was said on YouTube.
“If forced to recommend two, at this moment, I would say the Russo-Ukrainian War by Serhii Plokhy and The Showman by Simon Schuster”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Volodymyr Zelenskyy: President of Ukraine, leading the country's defense since Russia's full-scale invasion in February 2022. A former comedian and production-studio executive, he won the presidency in 2019 on an anti-corruption platform. Ukraine's President Zelenskyy argues war can only end through strength and real security guarantees, not naive trust in Putin.
“the current war in Ukraine a book titled the rousa Ukrainian War The Return of History”— Lex Fridman
The guest here is Serhii Plokhy: A historian at Harvard University and director of its Ukrainian Research Institute who specializes in the history of Eastern Europe, especially Ukraine and Russia. He has written widely on the Soviet Union, Chernobyl, nuclear disasters, and the current war, including 'The Russo-Ukrainian War: The Return of History.'. Harvard historian Serhii Plokhy explains the Soviet collapse, Ukraine's national identity, Bandera, the KGB, Chernobyl, and the roots of the Russia-Ukraine war.
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