Serhy Yekelchyk

Born and educated in the Soviet Union, Serhy Yekelchyk received a Ph.D. from the University of Alberta. He has published widely on Stalinism, in particular on the social and cultural processes in the Soviet state during and immediately after World War II. His monograph, Stalin’s Citizens: Everyday Politics in the Wake of Total War (Oxford University Press, 2014) was the recipient of the Best Book Award from the American Association for Ukrainian Studies and came out in a Ukrainian translation in 2019. A professor of History and Slavic Studies at the University of Victoria, Yekelchyk is also currently the president of the Canadian Association for Ukrainian Studies.