Yekelchyk, Serhy
Dr. Serhy Yekelchyk is professor at the departments of Germanic and Slavic Studies and History. His fields of expertise are: Russian History, Soviet Culture, Modern Ukraine, Stalinism (including Stalinist cinema, Nikolai Gogol), and modern Russian national identity as reflected in film and literature. Dr. Yekelchyk is author of Stalin’s Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (University of Toronto Press, 2004); Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (Oxford University Press, 2007; Choice magazine “Outstanding Academic Title” for 2007; Polish, Lithuanian, and Russian translations); and Europe’s Last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine between the EU and Russia (co-editor with Oliver Shmidtke; Palgrave Macmillan, 2008). He is currently at work completing a book manuscript on Stalinist political rituals.
Research Interests: Ukrainian History, Contemporary Ukraine, Russian History, Stalinism, and Contemporary Russia
Listing Details
| Institution: | University of Victoria |
| Fields of Expertise: | Commemoration and Memorialization Communism and the Cold War Divide Genocide and Mass Violence Public History |
| Research groups: | Memory Politics |
| Email: | serhy@uvic.ca |
| Media outreach: | Yes |
| Languages: | English, Russian, Ukrainian |
| Publications: | Pavlyshyn, M., Achilli, A., Yekelchyk, S., & Yesypenko, D. (2020). Cossacks in Jamaica, Ukraine at the antipodes: Essays in honor of Marko Pavlyshyn. Boston: Academic Studies Press. Yekelchyk, S. (2019). People’s war, state’s memory? Canadian Slavonic Papers, 61(4), 439-452. doi:10.1080/00085006.2019.1669393 Yekelchyk, S. (2019). Regional Identities in the Time of War. The Soviet and Post-Soviet Review, 46(3), 239-244. doi:10.1163/18763324-04603002 Yekelchyk, S. (2019, October 21). [Review of Imperial Apocalypse: The Great War and the Destruction of the Russian Empire. by 1018547874 782922805 J. A. Sanborn]. 205-207. Yekelchyk, S. (2020). The Ideological Park: How the Tsar’s Garden in Kyiv Became a Modern Political Space. Postsocialist Landscapes, 25-46. doi:10.14361/9783839451243-002 |
