作者简介

Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and the director of the university’s Ukrainian Research Institute. The author of numerous books, including the award-winning The Last Empire, for which he received the Lionel Gelber Prize, and Chernobyl, the recipient of the Baillie Gifford Prize, Plokhy lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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This definitive history of Ukraine is “an exemplary account of Europe’s least-known large country.” (Wall Street Journal)

As Ukraine is embroiled in an ongoing struggle with Russia to preserve its territorial integrity and political independence, celebrated historian Serhii Plokhy explains that today’s crisis is a case of history repeating itself: the Ukrainian conflict is only the latest in a long history of turmoil over Ukraine’s sovereignty. Situated between Central Europe, Russia, and the Middle East, Ukraine has been shaped by empires that exploited the nation as a strategic gateway between East and West—from the Romans and Ottomans to the Third Reich and the Soviet Union. In The Gates of Europe, Plokhy examines Ukraine’s search for its identity through the lives of major Ukrainian historical figures, from its heroes to its conquerors.

This revised edition includes new material that brings this definitive history up to the present. As Ukraine once again finds itself at the center of global attention, Plokhy brings its history to vivid life as he connects the nation’s past with its present and future.


Serhii Plokhy is the Mykhailo Hrushevsky Professor of Ukrainian History at Harvard and the director of the university’s Ukrainian Research Institute. The author of numerous books, including the award-winning The Last Empire, for which he received the Lionel Gelber Prize, and Chernobyl, the recipient of the Baillie Gifford Prize, Plokhy lives in Burlington, Massachusetts.

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  • 人在鹭洲
    大国环伺下乌克兰民族缔造过程的筚路蓝缕和辛酸血泪:横跨欧亚的地理位置 混杂东西的宗教派别 都是双刃剑 06-19
  • RoutineCat
    硬啃了一遍,多少理解了一些俄乌的爱恨情仇。03-31
  • LouisValentine
    Historically, the shock of war, the humiliation of defeat, and the open wound of lost territories have served as potent instruments for building national solidarity and forging a strong national identity.03-10
  • 叉叉
    买了快一年都没翻开来过……直到俄乌冲突开始。大国环伺,夹缝生存,buffer state命运多舛。欧洲粮仓也好,欧洲子宫也罢,无论谁执政,喜剧演员or寡头总统,倒霉的都是普通民众。前苏联解体,乌克兰家底最厚,一手好牌打得稀烂。03-16
  • 豆友229677258
    浦洛基以一種有充分文件證明和可讀的方式描述了一個多民族、多國家和多宗教實體的歷史。儘管有歷史和地理上的不確定性,但作者毫不掩飾:烏克蘭是一個可行的政治實體,在他看來,是歐洲傳統的一部分。問題是他是否能使這種解釋合理化。本書的政治目的也很明確——合乎邏輯的結果將是成為歐盟的成員。浦洛基的這種純粹和不加掩飾的現世主義觀點——歷史明確服務於當前的政治目的——是可以理解的。自2014年以來,以莫斯科策劃的克里米亞吞併和頓涅茨克地區內戰的形式,這迫使烏克蘭高速地塑造自己的身份。只有在可接受的歷史解釋範圍內,令人信服地制定和論證民族、宗教和國家身份,才能抵禦來自莫斯科的高壓。 (這被證明是一個太弱的紐帶)。浦洛基的願望是明確的。但遺憾的是,他沒有說明烏克蘭歷史在任何方面是歐洲傳統的建設性組成部分。02-25

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