Much of Yekelchyk's recent work focuses on Stalinist culture and political life, especially in the Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic. He has also written about Soviet nationalities policy and about Ukrainian national identity from the late nineteenth century to the present.[2] His book Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation was the first historical survey to include the 2004 Orange Revolution and has since been translated into five languages.[1]
Ukrainians in Australia. Vol. 2: 1966-1995. Co-editor with Marko Pavlyshyn. (Melbourne: Australian Federation of Ukrainian Organizations, 1998)
Stalin's Empire of Memory: Russian-Ukrainian Relations in the Soviet Historical Imagination (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, March 2004) ISBN1-86064-504-6
Ukraine: Birth of a Modern Nation (New York: Oxford University Press, 2007) ISBN978-0-19-530546-3
Europe’s Last Frontier? Belarus, Moldova, and Ukraine between Russia and the European Union. Co-editor with Oliver Schmidtke. (New York: Palgrave, 2008).
Імперія пам'яті. Російсько-українські стосунки в радянській історичній уяві / Пер. з англійської Миколи Климчука і Христини Чушак. — К.: Критика, 2008. — 304 с. (ISBN966-8978-08-0)
The Conflict in Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015 xix, 186 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Maps. (doi:10.1017/slr.2017.36)
Ukraine: What Everyone Needs to Know, 2nd ed. New York: Oxford University Press, 2020 xx, 209 pp. Notes. Bibliography. Chronology. Index. Maps. (ISBN978-0-19-753210-2, 978-0-19-753211-9)