Oleksa Drachewych explores how Russia’s use of WWII memory fuels its war against Ukraine. She traces parallels in rhetoric, war crimes, and ideology, linking Soviet history to present violence through propaganda, policy, and historical reinterpretation.
Dr. Oleksa Drachewych is an Assistant Professor of History at Western University, and a Lecturer in the Department of History at King’s University College, both in London, Ontario, Canada. He specializes in the histories of the Soviet Union, modern European international relations, and international communism. Drachewych is the author of The Communist International, Anti-Imperialism and Racial Equality in British Dominions (Routledge 2018) and co-editor of Left Transnationalism: The Communist International and the National, Colonial, and Racial Questions (McGill-Queen’s University Press 2020). Andreas Umland, M.Phil. (Oxford), Dr.Phil. (FU Berlin), Ph.D. (Cambridge), Research Fellow at the Swedish Institute of International Affairs in Stockholm, Senior Expert at the Ukrainian Institute for the Future in Kyiv, and Associate Professor at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy.