About Me

T.J. Petrowski is a neurodivergent author, researcher, and book collector specializing in Marxism, imperialism, international law, ethnic and secessionist conflicts, with a focus on the former USSR, Central Asia, Afghanistan, and the Caucasus.

His work has been cited or published in various newspapers, magazines, books, and papers, including People’s Voice, Rebel Youth, CounterPunch, the Centre for Research on Globalization, Dissident Voice, Tesfa News, the Prometheus Institute, Press TV, the International Model United Nations Association, the Centre for Land and Warfare Studies, and in various books.

He was the Communist Party of Canada-Manitoba candidate in the 2016 provincial election for the riding of Burrows.

He has travelled extensively throughout Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan.

He is the author of the award-winning Nagorno-Karabakh: A Reassessment of the Armenian-Azerbaijani Conflict (2022), available on Amazon and Google Books. He lives in Winnipeg, MB, Treaty 1 territory, with his wife, their Ball Python named Penny, and their library of over 1,500 nonfiction books.