Serhii Plokhii and Antony Beevor on Ukraine
In Conversation with Shahidha Bari on the Baillie Gifford Prize Podcast, Read Smart
On this episode of the Read Smart Podcast, released shortly after the Ukraine Invasion began, we were joined by Sir Antony Beevor, a multi-award winning historian of war whose book Stalingrad, which recounted the battle between Russian and German forces in Eastern Europe in the Second World War, won the very first Samuel Johnson Prize – the precursor to the Baillie Gifford Prize. His new book is Russia: Revolution and Civil War 1917-1921.
Antony is joined by Serhii Plokhii, the professor of Ukrainian history at Harvard University, who won the 2018 Baillie Gifford Prize for Chernobyl: History of a Tragedy.
Joining Antony and Serhii is Polly Jones, the professor of Russian at The University of Oxford, who recently wrote an introduction to Ukrainian author Vassily Grossman’s epic novel Life and Fate. This episode is hosted by author and critic Shahidha Bari.
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To mark 21 years of rewarding the best non-fiction writing, The Baillie Gifford Prize has launched a new podcast generously supported by the Blavatnik Family Foundation. This series is hosted by Razia Iqbal, special correspondent at BBC. Each episode celebrates a fantastic backlist of winners and go behind the scenes at the 2019 prize, from the longlist through to the winner announcement.
