PEN Ukraine

My name is Volodymyr Yermolenko.

I'm a Ukrainian philosopher, the editor-in-chief of Ukraine World and the president of PEN Ukraine.

My guest today is Michael Khodorkovsky, an American historian of Ukrainian origin and one of the leading scholars in Russian and Eurasian history.

We talk about his new book, The Steppe and Its Empires, The Russian Empire and Its Eurasian Counterparts, published by Yale University Press in 2026.

This was a podcast, Thinking in Dark Times, brought to you by Ukraine World, an English language media outlet about Ukraine.

My name is Volodymyr Yermolenko.

I'm a Ukrainian philosopher, the editor-in-chief of Ukraine World and the president of PEN Ukraine.

My guest today was Michael Khodorkovsky, an American historian of Ukrainian origin and one of the leading scholars of Russian and Eurasian history.