Brothers or Enemies : The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia from the 1840s to the 1870s.
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Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction -- 2 From the Cyrillo-Methodian Society to the Death of Nicholas I, 1845-55 -- 3 Ukrainian Literature and Censorship, 1855-9 -- 4 Ukrainian Publishing, Russians, and the Empire at the Beginning of the 1860s -- 5 Ukrainian Clandestine Activities and Government Reaction, 1856-64 -- 6 Imperial Policies and the Ukrainian Movement, 1863-76 -- 7 The Ukrainian Movement and Russia in the 1870s -- 8 Aftermath and Conclusions -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index.
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.