Research interests include the intellectual, cultural, and international history of Eastern Europe, with an emphasis on Ukraine. Teaches courses and seminars on early modern and modern East European history that engage major problems in the history of Ukraine, Russia, Belarus, Poland, and Lithuania.

Selected Publications

• The Cossack Myth: History and Nationhood in the Age of Empires Cambridge University Press (2012)
• Yalta: The Price of Peace Viking/Penguin (2010; 2011)
• Ukraine and Russia: Representations of the Past University of Toronto Press (2008)
• The Origins of the Slavic Nations: Premodern Identities in Russia, Ukraine and Belarus Cambridge University Press (2006)
• Unmaking Imperial Russia: Mykhailo Hrushevsky and the Writing of Ukrainian History University of Toronto Press (2005)
• Religion and Nation in Modern Ukraine (with Frank E. Sysyn) Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies Press (2003)
• Tsars and Cossacks: A Study in Iconography Harvard Ukrainian Research Institute/Harvard University Press (2002)
• The Cossacks and Religion in Early Modern Ukraine Oxford University Press (2001; 2004)

 

Contact Info

Center for Government and International Studies-South Building

Room 431

1730 Cambridge Street

Cambridge, MA 02138

plokhii@fas.harvard.edu

617-495-3527

 

Office Hours: Thursdays 12-1:30pm