Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red

Stephen Velychenko is a historian and research fellow at the Chair for Ukrainian Studies of the University of Toronto.

"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)

• IntroductionChapter 1Historical BackgroundUkrainian Anti-colonialist Thought to 1917Bolsheviks, Colonialism, and UkraineChapter 2Bolshevik Politics and UkraineRationalizing Russian DominationImperial and Other PreconceptionsRed Russian ImperialismChapter 3The Emergence of National CommunismRed Nationalists vs Red ImperialistsUkrainian Marxists and National LiberationUkrainians and the CominternConclusionAppendix: Translated Documents1 Temporary Organization Committee of Independentists, 1918 Resolution2 Four Ukrainian Left-SD Anti-Bolshevik Leaflets, Central Ukraine, 19193 Leaflet issued by Otaman Zeleny to Red Army Troops, 1919 4 Anonymous, Khto taki Kommunisty-Borotbysty, 1919? 5 Memorandum of the Moscow-Based Bolshevik “Ukrainian Communist Organization” to Lenin, 19196 Resolution Prepared by Federalists for the Kyiv City Section of the CPU, 19207 Program of the Ukrainian Communist Party, 19208 Four Letters from Former Bolshevik Party Members9 V. Vynnychenko, Ukrainska Kommunistychna partiia (UKP) i Kommunistychna partiia (bolshevyky) Ukrainy, 192110 Resolution on the National and Colonial Question, 192011 Anonymous, Vzgliad na polozhenie na Ukraine, 192012 Ivan Vrona, Resolution on Russian Bolshevik Colonialism, 192013 Vasyl Blakytny. Analysis of CPU, 192014 A. Richytsky, “The Economy and Culture,” 1920Notes Index