In Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red, Stephen Velychenko traces the first expressions of national, anti-colonial Marxism to 1918 and the Russian Bolshevik occupation of Ukraine. Velychenko reviews the work of early twentieth-century Ukrainians who regarded Russian rule over their country as colonialism. He then discusses the rise of "national communism" in Russia and Ukraine and the Ukrainian Marxist critique of Russian imperialism and colonialism. The first extended analysis of Russian communist rule in Ukraine to focus on the Ukrainian communists, their attempted anti-Bolshevik uprising in 1919, and their exclusion from the Comintern, Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red re-opens a long forgotten chapter of the early years of the Soviet Union and the relationship between nationalism and communism. An appendix provides a valuable selection of Ukrainian Marxist texts, all translated into English for the first time.

Stephen Velychenko Stephen Velychenko is Senior Research Fellow and the Chair of Ukrainian Studies, University of Toronto. He is the author of Painting Imperialism and Nationalism Red and State Building in Revolutionary Ukraine.

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"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."

<em>Harvard Ukrainian Studies Journal</em>

"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."

<em>The Slavic Review </em>

"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."

<em>University of Toronto Quarterly</em>

"Velychenko’s monograph is a unique and interesting contribution to the historiography of early Soviet Ukrainian history."

<em>Revolutionary Russia</em>