Trevor Erlacher is Academic Advisor at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Editor and Program Coordinator for the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

In addition to providing a thoroughly-researched story of Dontsov’s ideas and their evolution, Erlacher puts them into their proper historical context, providing an excellent overview of Ukrainian history in the early twentieth century. The picture of Dontsov that emerges is complex and controversial…[An] impressive work…A very useful tool for those that would like to understand the origins of the ideas that fueled Ukrainian nationalists and to do so in a way that is free from both Soviet propaganda and the patriotic fervor of some of the more recent Ukrainian historians.

Trevor Erlacher is Academic Advisor at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Editor and Program Coordinator for the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

In addition to providing a thoroughly-researched story of Dontsov’s ideas and their evolution, Erlacher puts them into their proper historical context, providing an excellent overview of Ukrainian history in the early twentieth century. The picture of Dontsov that emerges is complex and controversial…[An] impressive work…A very useful tool for those that would like to understand the origins of the ideas that fueled Ukrainian nationalists and to do so in a way that is free from both Soviet propaganda and the patriotic fervor of some of the more recent Ukrainian historians.

Trevor Erlacher is Academic Advisor at the Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies at the University of Pittsburgh. He is also Editor and Program Coordinator for the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies.

In addition to providing a thoroughly-researched story of Dontsov’s ideas and their evolution, Erlacher puts them into their proper historical context, providing an excellent overview of Ukrainian history in the early twentieth century. The picture of Dontsov that emerges is complex and controversial…[An] impressive work…A very useful tool for those that would like to understand the origins of the ideas that fueled Ukrainian nationalists and to do so in a way that is free from both Soviet propaganda and the patriotic fervor of some of the more recent Ukrainian historians.