Historian Serhii Plokhy on Russian imperialism, de-colonization, and why Putin is so obsessed with Ukraine
Ukrainian-American historian and author Serhii Plokhy during the Edinburgh International Book Festival 2019 in Edinburgh, Scotland, on Aug. 14, 2019. (Simone Padovani/Awakening/Getty Images) Even before Russia launched its full-scale war in 2022, …