Look what arrived this week! Replaying the Second World War, my newest book, is now available through ibidem Press, and distributed by Columbia University Press. #russia #ukraine #russiaswarinukraine #newbook
Oleksa Drachewych
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Historian of 20th C international relations, USSR, communism in global/transnational frameworks; professor at Western University, King's University College, and University of Guelph
Look what arrived this week! Replaying the Second World War, my newest book, is now available through ibidem Press, and distributed by Columbia University Press. #russia #ukraine #russiaswarinukraine #newbook
RE: https://mastodon.social/@Odrachewych/115549399689553163
In this book, I discuss parallels from the Second World War period on sexual violence, denazification, propaganda, killing civilians, weaponization of food and more. I also discuss complicity of "ordinary Russians" and how the instrumentalization of history by Russia dehumanizes Ukrainians.
Forthcoming in February 2026, my new book Replaying the Second World War: Soviet Parallels and Inspirations for Russian Atrocities in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-25, out with ibidem Press and distributed by Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/replaying-the-second-world-war/9783838220796/
Forthcoming in February 2026, my new book Replaying the Second World War: Soviet Parallels and Inspirations for Russian Atrocities in the Russo-Ukrainian War, 2014-25, out with ibidem Press and distributed by Columbia University Press. https://cup.columbia.edu/book/replaying-the-second-world-war/9783838220796/
As there's the Tsargrad Institute's forum with many interesting figures going on this week, the memory of the Second World War remains an important prism to understand and analyze how Russian sympathizers and leaders view the world.
How's all that peace a Trump administration was supposed to bring going?
What? Peace is hard. You don't say when a nation is invaded by an imperialist and genocidal power: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/crkx3jgyvyzo
Russia remains demanding its same conditions on Ukraine as it has since March 2022. It wishes a pliable Ukraine. Nothing has meaningfully changed since the escalation started.
Russian aims continue to be clear. They don't see the Zelenskyy government as legitimate: https://tass.com/politics/1935475