ON THE DAY Russia launched its full-scale invasion of Ukraine, historian Serhii Plokhy was on sabbatical in Vienna, researching a new book about Chernobyl. He’d spent weeks sifting through documents in the archives of the International Atomic Energy Agency, sometimes long into the night. On what turned out to be his last working day there, February 24, 2022, he woke up at 6 a.m. to find an email from a Harvard colleague: “I hope you are OK,” it read. Immediately, he knew the war had begun. He was not OK… Read more at Harvard Magazine
The Return of History
