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

‘I found this book well-written and clarifying history of a less documented era in Ukrainian history.’

Charitie V. Hyman, The Russian Review vol 76:04:2017

‘This is a rare study of a unique period in the history of the antagonistic relations between the Ukrainian national movement and the Russian imperial government.’

Andrii Danylenko, Slavonic and East European Review vol 95:03:2017

"Brothers or Enemies is a welcome addition to the small but growing body of new scholarship on nineteenth century Russian borderlands, and, specifically, on Ukraine."

Olga Andriewsky, Slavic Review Vol 77:01:2020

"Johannes Remy is one of the most assiduous and productive researchers working on the development of Ukranian national identity in the Russian empire during the second half of the nineteenth century…[R]esearchers working on the Ukranian movement in Russia will find this volume a valuable resource."

Maxim Tarnawsky, Canadian Slavonic Papers, June 28 (Online)

"Remy’s book Brothers or Enemies should become indispensable for all historians of nineteenth-century Ukraine. It should also be of great use to historians specializing in Ukranian-Russian relations."

Sirhiy Bilenky, Canadian Institute of Ukranian Studies, East/West: Journal of Ukranian Studies, vol VI, 1

"Remy’s in-depth exploration of the Russian and Ukrainian archives, as well as many other half-forgotten and unpublished historical sources, is probably the most important and laudable aspect of his monograph. He pays attention even to minor details, for which scholars will be grateful."

Volodymyr Kravchenko, University of Alberta, Kritika

"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