Den 24. februar 2022 vågnede verden op til den chokerende nyhed, at Rusland havde invaderet Ukraine. Mens historikeren Serhii Plokhy prøvede at komme i kontakt med venner og familie i Ukraine, som pludselig befandt sig midt i den største konflikt siden Anden Verdenskrig, forsøgte han at forstå denne udvikling i Europas historie. Hvorfor angreb Rusland? Og hvorfor nu? Og hvordan vil Ukraine, Rusland og verden se ud bagefter? I ”Angrebet” redegør den anerkendte ekspert i ukrainsk historie for konfliktens baggrund. Han analyserer forløbet og giver sit bud på konsekvenserne af denne krig – for Ukraine, Europa og verden. Om forfatteren: Serhii Plokhy (f. 1957) er professor i ukrainsk historie og leder af Ukrainian Research Institute ved Harvard University. Han har udgivet en række bøger og artikler om Østeuropa, Rusland, den kolde krig og atomalderens historie, bl.a. ”The Gates of Europe”, som blev en New York Times-bestseller og ”Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy”, som Serhii Plokhy modtog Baillie Gifford-prisen for.

Angrebet

In «Die Frontlinie» analysiert der Historiker Serhii Plokhy die entscheidenden Entwicklungen in der Geschichte der Ukraine und ihrer Beziehung zu Russland und dem Westen. Russlands Angriffskrieg kommt nicht aus dem Nichts. Die Begründung des Krieges und das dahinterstehende Narrativ greifen auf jahrhundertealte Großmachtansprüche Russlands zurück, die es in der Vergangenheit immer wieder gestellt hat. In kenntnisreichen Essays zeigt er, wie viel umfassender sich der gegenwärtige Konflikt verstehen lässt, wenn man die historischen Wurzeln kennt und die Region in ihrer Vielschichtigkeit erfassen kann. Das ist so erhellend wie erschreckend.

Die Frontlinie

24 februari 2022 vaknade världen upp till den chockerande nyheten att Ryssland hade invaderat Ukraina. Samtidigt som historikern Serhii Plokhy försökte få fram uppgifter om vänner och släktningar som plötsligt befann sig mitt i den största konflikten i Europa sedan andra världskriget, började han att fundera på krigets verkliga orsaker och rötter. Resultatet är en heltäckande historia om en konflikt som pågått sedan 2014 och som från grunden ändrat den geopolitiska ordning som styrt Europa sedan kalla kriget gick i graven. Serhii Plokhys bok är baserad på decennier av forskning och hans unika kännedom om regionen. Det rysk-ukrainska kriget – historiens återkomst är samtidshistoria av bästa märke, skriven av en av vår tids ledande experter på området.

Det rysk-ukrainska kriget : historiens återkomst

Brought to you by Penguin. In 2011, a 43-foot-high tsunami crashed into a nuclear power plant in Fukushima, Japan. In the following days, explosions would rip buildings apart, three reactors would go into nuclear meltdown, and the surrounding area would be swamped in radioactive water. It is now considered one of the costliest nuclear disasters ever. But Fukushima was not the first, and it was not the worst. . . In Atoms and Ashes, acclaimed historian Serhii Plokhy tells the tale of the six nuclear disasters that shook the world: Bikini Atoll, Kyshtym, Windscale, Three Mile Island, Chernobyl and Fukushima. Based on wide-ranging research and witness testimony, Plokhy traces the arc of each crisis, exploring in depth the confused decision-making on the ground and the panicked responses of governments to contain the crises and often cover up the scale of the catastrophe. As the world increasingly looks to renewable and alternative sources of energy, Plokhy lucidly argues that the atomic risk must be understood in explicit terms, but also that these calamities reveal a fundamental truth about our relationship with nuclear technology: that the thirst for power and energy has always trumped safety and the cost for future generations. © Serhii Plokhy 2022 (P) Penguin Audio 2022

Atoms and Ashes

Brought to you by Penguin. In November 1943, with the outcome of the Second World War hanging in the balance, the Allies needed a new plan. The Americans' audacious suggestion to the Soviets was to open a second air front, with the US Air Force establishing bases in Soviet-controlled territory. Despite Stalin's obvious reservations about the presence of foreign troops in Russia, he was persuaded, and in early 1944 and Operation Baseball and then Frantic were initiated as B-17 Superfortresses were flown from bases in Italy to the Poltova region in today's Ukraine. Award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the gripping, little-known story of this encounter between American and Soviet soldiers and how their collaboration quickly fell apart, mirroring the transition from the Grand Alliance to the Cold War. Soviet secret policemen watched over the Americans, shadowing their every move. A catastrophic air raid by the Germans revealed the limitations of Soviet air defences. As their initial enthusiasm turned into disappointment, the American soldiers started calling themselves the Forgotten Bastards of Ukraine. Ultimately, no common purpose could overcome their cultural and political differences. Drawing on newly opened Russian archives as well as CIA records, Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front offers a riveting bottom-up history one of the Second World War's most unlikely alliances.

Forgotten Bastards of the Eastern Front

Brought to you by Penguin. What if Chernobyl was just the beginning? The acclaimed winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize returns to Chernobyl to tell the gripping story of thirty-five days of war On 24 February 2022, the first day of Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine, armoured vehicles approached the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in northern Ukraine. It was the most direct way for them to reach the capital - and an extraordinarily reckless plan after the disaster that had taken place there three decades earlier. Russian occupation of the plant had begun. It would last thirty-five days. Closely reported and narrated from multiple perspectives, this is the story of the Ukrainians who were held hostage and worked shifts for weeks instead of days to spare the world a new nuclear accident. We meet Valentyn Heiko, the foreman who had also been there for the clean-up of the Chernobyl accident in 1986 and turned sixty during the occupation; plant workers who found a way to celebrate International Women’s Day despite all odds; Russian officers who had no knowledge of nuclear reactors; and four stalkers who were caught in the middle and stood in for the overworked cook. Gripping and unforgettable, Chernobyl Roulette sounds the alarm about the dangers of nuclear sites in an unprecedented time, when plant workers are left to fight on their own while the world holds its breath. In a book that reads like a thriller, Serhii Plokhy tells a remarkable story about human nature, uncertainty and courage. 'A necessary book – and I can think of no writer better qualified to write it' Cal Flyn © Serhii Plokhy 2024 (P) Penguin Audio 2024

Chernobyl Roulette

Brought to you by Penguin. 'The world's foremost historian of Ukraine. . . the chronicler of a country on the front lines of a seismic European war' Financial Times On 24 February 2022, Russia stunned the world by launching an invasion of Ukraine. In the midst of checking on the family and friends who were now on the front lines of Europe's largest conflict since the outbreak of the Second World War, acclaimed Ukrainian-American historian Serhii Plokhy inevitably found himself attempting to understand the deeper causes of the invasion, analysing its course and contemplating the wider outcomes. The Russo-Ukrainian War is the comprehensive history of a conflict that has burned since 2014, and that, with Russia's attempt to seize Kyiv, exploded a geo-political order that had been cemented since the end of the Cold War. With an eye for the gripping detail on the ground, both in the halls of power and down in the trenches, as well as a keen sense of the grander sweep of history, Plokhy traces the origins and the evolution of the conflict, from the collapse of the Russian empire to the rise and fall of the USSR and on to the development in Ukraine of a democratic politics. Based on decades of research and his unique insight into the region, he argues that Ukraine's defiance of Russia, and the West's demonstration of unity and strength, has presented a profound challenge to Putin's Great Power ambition, and further polarized the world along a new axis. A riveting, enlightening account, this is present-minded history at its best. ©2023 Serhii Plokhy (P)2023 Penguin Audio

The Russo-Ukrainian War

Shortlisted for the Baillie Gifford Prize 'An insightful and important book, that often reads like a good thriller, and that exposes the danger of mixing powerful technology with irresponsible politics' - Yuval Noah Harari, author of Sapiens 'As moving as it is painstakingly researched. . . a cracking read' - Viv Groskop, Observer The gripping story of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, from an acclaimed historian and writer On the morning of 26 April 1986 Europe witnessed the worst nuclear disaster in history: the explosion of a reactor at the Chernobyl nuclear power plant in Soviet Ukraine. The outburst put the world on the brink of nuclear annihilation. In the end, less than five percent of the reactor's fuel escaped, but that was enough to contaminate over half of Europe with radioactive fallout. In Chernobyl, Serhii Plokhy recreates these events in all of their drama, telling the stories of the firefighters, scientists, engineers, workers, soldiers, and policemen who found themselves caught in a nuclear Armageddon and succeeded in doing the seemingly impossible: extinguishing the nuclear inferno and putting the reactor to sleep. While it is clear that the immediate cause of the accident was a turbine test gone wrong, Plokhy shows how the deeper roots of Chernobyl lay in the nature of the Soviet political system and the flaws of its nuclear industry. A little more than five years later, the Soviet Union would fall apart, destroyed from within by its unsustainable communist ideology and the dysfunctional managerial and economic systems laid bare in the wake of the disaster. A poignant, fast paced account of the drama of heroes, perpetrators, and victims, Chernobyl is the definitive history of the world's worst nuclear disaster.

Chernobyl

Brought to you by Penguin. The definitive new history of the Cuban Missile Crisis from the author of Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy, winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize For more than four weeks in the autumn of 1962 the world teetered. The consequences of a misplaced step during the Cuban Missile Crisis could not have been more grave. Ash and cinder, famine and fallout; nuclear war between the two most-powerful nations on Earth. In Nuclear Folly, award-winning historian Serhii Plokhy tells the riveting story of those weeks, tracing the tortuous decision-making and calculated brinkmanship of John F. Kennedy, Nikita Khrushchev and Fidel Castro, and of their advisors and commanders on the ground. More often than not, Plokhy argues, the Americans and Soviets simply misread each other, operating under mutual distrust, second-guesses and false information. Despite all of this, nuclear disaster was avoided thanks to one very human reason: fear. Drawing on an impressive array of primary sources, including recently declassified KGB files, Plokhy masterfully illustrates the drama of those tense days. Authoritative, fast-paced and unforgettable, this is the definitive new account of the Cold War's most perilous moment. © Serhii Plokhy 2021 (P) Penguin Audio 2021

Nuclear Folly

Hyytävä kuvaus ihmisistä ydinkatastrofin keskellä. Ukrainan neuvostotasavallassa tapahtui 26.4.1986 historian vakavin ydinvoimaonnettomuus, ja radioaktiivisen laskeuman leviämistä seurattiin pelonsekaisin tuntein ympäri Eurooppaa. Kirjassa kuvataan Tšernobylin tragedia sen kokeneiden palo- ja tiedemiesten, insinöörien, työläisten, sotilaiden ja valtiojohtajien kautta. Tuloksena on mestarillinen ja palkittu historiateos, joka avaa näkymän neuvostojärjestelmän mätään ytimeen.

Tšernobyl

Länsi sulkee rivejään ja sitoutuu tiiviimmin Natoon. Venäjä eristyy yhä enemmän. Uusi kylmä sota on syntymässä samassa osassa maailmaa, jossa se päättyi kolmekymmentä vuotta sitten. Venäjän hyökkäys Ukrainaan synnytti suurimman eurooppalaisen konfliktin sitten toisen maailmansodan. Hyökkäys oli shokki koko maailmalle, vaikka Venäjä oli tehnyt jatkuvasti sotavalmisteluja Ukrainan rajalla. Miksi Venäjä hyökkäsi? Ja miksi nyt? Putinin kiihkomieliset perustelut hyökkäykselle olivat länsitarkkailijoiden mielestä järjettömiä, joten niihin ei kiinnitetty suurta huomiota. Ja kun sota alkoi, länsi yllättyi jälleen, nyt Ukrainan voimasta puolustaa omaa itsenäisyyttään. Olemme todistamassa poikkeuksellista geopoliittista muutosta, joka sekoittaa maailmanjärjestyksen tuleviksi vuosikymmeniksi. Serhii Plokhy, Ukrainan yksi tärkeimmistä nykyhistorioitsijoista selittää, miten tähän on tultu. Hän jäljittää sodan juuret Neuvostoliiton romahtamisen jälkeisiin ratkaisemattomiin jännitteisiin ja tarkastelee, kuinka Ukraina on pysynyt Venäjän identiteetille tärkeänä vaikka ukrainalaiset ovat kulkeneet täysin erilaista tietä, kohti Eurooppaa ja läntistä demokratiaa. Serhii Plokhy (s. 1957) on Ukrainan historian professori Harvardissa ja yliopiston Ukrainan tutkimuslaitoksen johtaja. Häntä pidetään yhtenä maailman parhaista Ukraina-asiantuntijoista. Plokhy asuu Burlingtonissa, Massachusettsissa. Hänen teoksensa Tšernobyl sai vuonna 2018 Baillie Gifford -tietokirjapalkinnon.

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