Crimea is Crucial for Understanding the History of Ukraine – Serhii Plokhy

Ukraine has a very deep cultural history. Although the country never appeared on the map for longer than a few months until 1991 when the Soviet Union collapsed, its roots go back thousands of years, to when historian Herodotus wrote about Crimea and the Olbia region that is now part of southern Ukraine.

“When you look at the territory of Ukraine – the internationally recognized territory of Ukraine – Crimea has more history than any other part of Ukraine,” says author and professor at the Harvard University Serhii Plokhy.

Plokhy – who has written numerous books including the London-published Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy and The Gates of Europe: A History of Ukraine – adds that without Crimean history, the history of Ukraine “doesn't have a beginning, it's just cut off.”

“Crimea is also important for the world history as a whole. That's also what makes Ukrainian history really international and integrated into the history of Mediterranean, into the history of Europe, into the history of world,” he says.

Hromadske sat down with Plokhy to discuss some of his most recent books and the imprint various historical events have left on Ukraine.

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