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Two Russian Invasions a Century Apart | Serhy Yekelchyk

From the outset of Russian aggression against Ukraine in 2014, striking parallels emerged with the Bolshevik invasions of Ukraine during the Revolution of 1917–21: the denial of Russian military involvement in what was portrayed as a Ukrainian “civil war,” assertions that the industrial southeast was inherently “Russian,” and the ruthless exploitation of Ukraine’s resources. Although Vladimir Putin prefers to identify with General Denikin’s White Army and to attribute the “creation” of Ukraine to Lenin, a closer examination of early Bolshevik policies in Ukraine reveals deeply colonial attitudes. It was only the resistance of the Ukrainian peasantry and the existence of the Ukrainian National Republic that compelled Lenin to make concessions to Ukrainians – concessions that were never meant to be permanent. In this light, Putin and the Bolshevik leaders appear cut from the same cloth, their policies alike paving the way toward genocide. Born and educated in Ukraine, Serhy Yekelchyk received a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. He is the author of eight books on modern Ukrainian history and Russo-Ukrainian relations including the award-winning Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Oxford University Press, 2014). A professor of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria, Yekelchyk is current president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies.