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...Communist party control was...felt not only in politics, but also in academics...Even the early modern history of the 17th and 18th centuries was really dictated by the direction of party historians,” says Plokhii. “You were not able to get access to certain materials...
...Plokhii left the Soviet Union to teach full-time in Alberta in 1991, just after witnessing the attempted August Coup in Moscow against then-premier Mikhail Gorbachev, an event that marked the beginning of the dissolution of the Soviet Union...
...Because I spoke English, I was interviewed by almost every news station,” says Plokhii with a touch of wry humor...
After arriving at Harvard, Plokhii is slated to teach a course on early modern eastern Europe and a course on European identities in Russia and Ukraine...
...Harvard is a very important center of Ukrainian studies in America,” Plokhii says. “It’s an honor on more than one level...