Published Research Monographs:
Replaying the Second World War: Soviet Parallels and Inspirations for Russian Atrocities in the Russo-Ukrainian War (Stuttgart: ibidem Press, 2026). (Link)
The Communist International, Anti-Imperialism and Racial Equality in British Dominions (London: Routledge, 2018). (Link)
Published Edited Collections:
w/ Ian McKay, Left Transnationalism: The Comintern and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020). (Link)
Published Academic Articles:
“Russia’s War against Ukraine: The Early Historiography of an Escalation,” Russian Review (June 2025): 1-7 (Link)
“The Comintern and the National and Colonial Question: The Roots of Soviet Anti-Imperialism and Anti-Racism Reconsidered,” Russian History 50, no. 3-4 (May, 2024): 219-242. (Link)
“Transnational Anti-Imperialism and the Left in the First Half of the Twentieth Century,” American Historical Review 129, no. 1 (March 2024): 243-246. (Link)
“Broadening the Native Republic Thesis: De-siloing Comintern Histories,” Twentieth Century Communism 24 (2023): 110-131. (Link)
“Great disappointment, shifting opportunities: A glimpse into the Comintern, Western European parties and their colonial work in the Third Period,” Twentieth Century Communism 18 (2020): 150-173. (Link)
w/ Daniel Edmonds & Evan Smith, “Editorial: Transnational communism and anti-colonialism,” Twentieth Century Communism 18 (2020): 5-13. (Link)
“Race, The Comintern & Communist Parties in British Dominions, 1920-1943,” Left Transnationalism: The Comintern and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions, edited by Oleksa Drachewych & Ian McKay (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), 247-269.
w/Ian McKay, “Transnational Leftism? The Communist International, the National, Colonial and Racial Questions, and the Strengths and Limitations of the ‘Moscow Rules’ Paradigm,” Left Transnationalism: The Comintern and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions, edited by Oleksa Drachewych & Ian McKay (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), 3-49.
“Conclusion: Future Avenues for the Study of the Comintern and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions,” Left Transnationalism: The Comintern and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions, edited by Oleksa Drachewych and Ian McKay (Montreal & Kingston: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2020), 407-411.
“Settler Colonialism and the Communist International,” Palgrave Encyclopedia of Imperialism and Anti-Imperialism, Second Edition, edited by Immanuel Ness and Zak Cope. Palgrave Macmillan, 2019. (Link)
“The Communist Transnational? Transnational studies and the history of the Comintern,” History Compass (2018). (Link)
Forthcoming Research Monographs:
Soviet Communism & Human Rights (under contract with McGill-Queen’s University Press, forthcoming)
Totalitarianism: A Critical Review from the First World War to the Present (under contract with Routledge, forthcoming)
Blog Posts and Op-Eds:
“Trump and Putin didn’t hold new peace talks after all — but that was likely Putin’s plan all along,” The Conversation Canada (October 30, 2025) (Link)
“Why justice for Ukraine must be at the forefront of peace negotiations,” The Conversation Canada (February 24, 2025) (Link)
“Russia must be held accountable for war crimes if there is to be ‘enduring peace’ with Ukraine,” Toronto Star (February 24, 2025) (Link)
“Is Putin drawing inspiration from Stalin’s military purge? Despite parallels, probably not,” The Conversation Canada (July 1, 2024) (Link)
“Calling for an End to War Is Not the Same as Calling for Peace,” The Moscow Times (January 5, 2024) (Link)
“Calls for peace in Ukraine a year after Russia’s full-scale invasion are unrealistic,” The Conversation Canada (February 16, 2023) (Link)
“How Russia’s fixation on the Second World War helps explain its Ukraine invasion,” The Conversation Canada (April 21, 2022) (Link)
“Putin’s War in Ukraine and on History,” ActiveHistory.ca (March 1, 2022) (Link)
“Russia 2017: The Centenary of a Global Revolution,” ActiveHistory.ca (November 16, 2017) (Link)
“Transnational Leftism: A Symposium on the Comintern and the National, Colonial and Racial Questions,” Au delà des frontiѐres: La nouvelle histoire du Canada/Beyond Borders: The New Canadian History (September 11, 2017) (Link)
“‘The most exploited section of the working class’: The Canadian Communist Party, International Communism, Nationality, and Racial Equality in the Interwar Period,” Au delà des frontiѐres: La nouvelle histoire du Canada/Beyond Borders: The New Canadian History (March 20, 2017) (Link)
I have also completed book reviews for Russian Review, Canadian Slavonic Papers, Europe-Asia Studies, Slavic Review, H-Diplomacy, Revolutionary Russia among others.
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