David Roger Marples

Dr. Marples is the author of 17 single-authored books and five edited books on topics ranging from 20th-century Russia, Stalinism, contemporary Belarus, contemporary Ukraine, and the Chernobyl disaster. His recent books include Belarus: What Everyone Needs to Know (2006, with Veronical Laputska), Stalin: His Life and Times (2022, with Alla Hurska), The War in Ukraine's Donbas (edited, 2022), Understanding Ukraine and Belarus (Bristol: E-International Relations, 2020), ‘Our Glorious Past: Lukashenka’s Belarus and the Great Patriotic War (Stuttgart, Germany: Ibidem Verlag, 2014), and,Heroes and Villains: Creating National History in Contemporary Ukraine (Budapest: Central European University Press, 2008). He is Unversity of Alberta Distinguished Professor and Research Fellow, Canadian Institute of Ukrainian Studies. Four of his early books are on the Chernobyl accident, and he was the second Canadian to visit the plant in May 1989, where he interviewed the director, toured Pripyat, and met with members of the Centre for Radiation Medicine in Kyiv.