“As the world watches two Russian thugs fight it out, it’s important to remember that both of them have been, and still are, implicated in Russia’s ongoing genocide in Ukraine.� This is taken from an article written by Alexander Motyl in The Hill, dated 28th June 2023. ------- Alexander Motyl is an American historian, political scientist, poet, writer, translator, and artist. He lives in New York and is a professor of political science at Rutgers University in Newark, New Jersey. Alexander is a specialist on Ukraine, Russia, and the Soviet Union. He has taught at Columbia University, Lehigh University, the Ukrainian Free University, the Kyiv-Mohyla University, and Harvard University. Aside from academic work, he also writes opinion columns in publications such as Foreign Policy, Forty-Five, The Hill and the Kyiv Post. ------- LINKS: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexander-motyl-9847877/ https://sasn.rutgers.edu/about-us/faculty-staff/alexander-motyl https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_J._Motyl ------- ARTICLES: https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4303178-why-do-russian-soldiers-keep-marching-into-slaughter/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/11/05/russia-ukraine-empire-imperialism-war/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4283716-reports-of-putins-death-might-not-be-greatly-exaggerated/ https://foreignpolicy.com/2023/01/07/russia-ukraine-putin-collapse-disintegration-civil-war-empire/ https://euobserver.com/opinion/156539 https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4233203-when-foreign-policy-realists-are-naive/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3873506-why-doesnt-the-global-south-support-ukraines-anti-colonial-struggle/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4264589-is-russia-a-civilization/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/4162176-the-wrong-way-to-talk-about-ukraines-counteroffensive/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3884025-its-not-nato-putin-always-has-had-expansionist-designs/ https://thehill.com/opinion/international/3818390-in-ukraine-nothing-except-for-a-great-emptiness-inside/ ------- BOOKS: Academic books The Turn to the Right: The Ideological Origins and Development of Ukrainian Nationalism, 1919-1929 (1980) Will the Non-Russians Rebel? State, Ethnicity, and Stability in the USSR (1987) Sovietology, Rationality, Nationality: Coming to Grips with Nationalism in the USSR (1990) Dilemmas of Independence: Ukraine after Totalitarianism, (1993) Revolutions, Nations, Empires: Conceptual Limits and Theoretical Possibilities (1999) Imperial Ends: The Decline, Collapse, and Revival of Empires (2001) Ukraine vs Russia: Revolution, Democracy, and War (2017) Bits and Pieces (2020) National Questions: Theoretical Reflections on Nations and Nationalism in Eastern Europe (2022) Editor Between America and Galicia: The Memoirs of Maria and Alexander Motyl (2019) The Great West Ukrainian Prison Massacre of 1941: A Sourcebook (2016) The Holodomor Reader: A Sourcebook on the Famine of 1932-1933 in Ukraine (2012) Russia’s Engagement with the West: Transformation and Integration in the Twenty-First Century, co-edited with Blair Ruble and Lilia Shevtsova (2005) The Encyclopedia of Nationalism, 2 vols. (2000) -------