Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red: The Ukrainian Marxist Critique of Russian Communist Rule in Ukraine, 1918-1925

"Velychenko provides a valuable appendix of twenty translated documents, including leaflets from the spring and summer of 1919 issued by the nezalezhnyky, borot´bisty, and the Ukrainian Revolutionary Committee of Otaman Zelenyi."

Marko Bojcun, New York University, Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal

"Stephen Velychenko has written an important book… It adds to our understanding of the relations between Russia and Ukraine. It is also useful in understanding the complexity of the Ukrainian revolution."

Bohdan Klid, University of Toronto Quarterly

"Stephen Velechenko’s deeply researched book expertly demonstrates the powerful appeal of Marxism outside the center of the former Russian Empire and the alternative ways in which communism might have been applied."

Matthew D. Pauly, The Slavic Review

"Velychenko’s monograph is a unique and interesting contribution to the historiography of early Soviet Ukrainian history."

Christopher Gilley, Revolutionary Russia

"This book addresses an important topic. Typically, one associates Ukrainian nationalism with the political Right. Velychenko shows how, during the era of the Bolshevik Revolution and Russian civil war, the political Left in Ukraine was forced to defend itself on national principles against the centralizing, Moscow-based Bolsheviks."

P. E. Heineman, CHOICE Connect

"Overall, this book serves to provide the reverse of what Renan argued was necessary in the creation of a nation. Instead of forgetting and historical error, remembering and historical recovery here are employed in the recreation of a nation. For Velychenko, the ideas of Ukrainian Marxists ‘remain relevant today, when Vladimir Putin’s government sponsors attend empire-loyalist extremist minority groups in Ukraine."

Michael T. Westrate, Canadian Journal of History

"It is hard to imagine a more appropriate book to appear on the eve of the centennial of the revolutions of 1917 in the Russian Empire than Stephen Velychenko’s most recent contribution to the rich and contested historiography of the Ukrainian revolution and state."

Mark von Hagen, East/West Journal of Ukrainian Studies