Amherst Center for Russian Culture The Three Ukrainian Revolutions (1988-2014)

Born and educated in Ukraine when it was part of the Soviet Union, Serhy Yekelchyk received a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. He is the author of seven books on modern Ukrainian history, Stalinism, and Russo-Ukrainian relations. His monograph, Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Oxford University Press, 2014) was the recipient of the Best Book Award from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and its Ukrainian translation in 2019 received a special diploma of the Lviv Book Forum. Yekelchyk’s most recent publication is the second, much expanded edition of his popular book about the Euromaidan Revolution and Russia’s war on Ukraine, Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know (Oxford University Press, 2020). He is currently working on a history of Ukrainian culture under Stalinism. A professor of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria, Yekelchyk is current president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies.

Sponsored by the Smith College Russian, East European and Eurasian Studies Program, Department of History, and Lecture Committee, and the Five College REEES Certificate Program.