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Brothers or Enemies : The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia, From the 1840s to the 1870s

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Brothers or Enemies : The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia, From the 1840s to the 1870s

Brothers or Enemies :
The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia, From the 1840s to the 1870s

by Johannes Remy
English | 2016 | ISBN: 1487500467 | 340 Pages | PDF | 1.6 MB

Contrary to the prevailing opinion, the idea of Ukrainian independence did not emerge at the end of the nineteenth-century. In Brothers and Enemies, Johannes Remy reveals that the roots of Ukrainian independence were planted fifty years earlier.

Remy contextualizes the Ukrainian national movement against the backdrop of the Russian Empire and its policy of oppression in the mid-nineteenth-century. Remy utilizes a wide range of unpublished archival sources to shed light on topics that are absent from current discourse including: Ilarion Vasilchikov's alliance with Ukrainian activists in 1861, the forged revolutionary proclamation used to deport Pavlo Chubynsky (who is known today as the author of the Ukrainian national anthem), and the 1864 negotiations between Kyiv activists and the Polish National Government. Brothers and Enemies is the first systematic study of imperial censorship policies during the period and will be of interest to those who seek a better understanding of the current Ukrainian-Russian conflict.

"This is an impressive account of the mid- to late-nineteenth-century divergence of the ideas of Russia and Ukraine. It is firmly grounded in all the relevant primary and secondary literature, well organized, clearly written, and not weighed down by too much theory or abstraction. The author’s even-handedness in a field which has long been bedevilled by nationalistic approaches does him great credit." - David Saunders, Professor of Russian History, Newcastle University

"Brothers or Enemies demonstrates Dr. Remy’s enormous erudition and painstaking research effort. The result is nothing less than a comprehensive history of the Ukrainian national movement in the Russian Empire during the crucial period 1845–1876." - Serhy Yekelchyk, Professor of Slavic Studies, University of Victoria