REVIEW OF: Karl Schlögel. Ukraine: A Nation on the Borderland. Translated by Gerrit Jackson, Reaktion Books, 2018. 288 pp. Illustrations. Further Reading.
Book review of Johannes Remy. Brothers or Enemies: The Ukrainian National Movement and Russia, from the 1840s to the 1870s. U of Toronto P, 2016.x, 334 pp. Illustrations. Notes. Bibliography. Index. ...$66.00, cloth.
Nikolai Fabrikant was the pseudonym of Ivan Krevets'kyi, a well-known Ukrainian intellectual who functioned as a historian, a bibliographer, and a civic activist in Austrian-ruled Galicia. In 1905, ...Krevets'kyi (under his pseudonym) published in Russian his arguably most famous polemical piece on the Russian censorship of Ukrainian literature in the Russian liberal periodical Russkaia mysl' (Russian Thought), one of the most widely circulating Moscow journals (with around 14,000 subscribers at its peak). Krevets'kyi’s “Kratkii ocherk iz istorii otnoshenii russkikh tsenzurnykh zakonov k ukrainskoi literature” (“A Brief Outline of the History of the Treatment of Ukrainian Literature by the Russian Censorship Laws”) was not an original publication but rather a revision of the author’s Ukrainian-language article “Ne bylo, net i byt' ne mozhet!” (“There Has Not Been, Is Not, and Cannot Be!”)1 published in 1904 in the prime Ukrainian journal Literaturno-naukovyi visnyk (Literary Scientific Herald), a literary and scholarly periodical founded by historian Mykhailo Hrushevs'kyi with the participation of such luminaries as Ivan Franko and Volodymyr Hnatiuk.
Imperial Urbanism in the Borderlandsis the first work to approach the history of Kyiv from an interdisciplinary perspective and showcases Kyiv's rightful place as a city worthy of attention from ...historians, urbanists, and literary scholars.
This book explores the political imagination of Eastern Europe in the 1830s and 1840s, when Polish, Russian, and Ukrainian intellectuals came to identify themselves as belonging to communities known ...as nations or nationalities. Bilenky approaches this topic from a transnational perspective, revealing the ways in which modern Russian, Polish, and Ukrainian nationalities were formed and refashioned through the challenges they presented to one another, both as neighboring communities and as minorities within a given community. Further, all three nations defined themselves as a result of their interactions with the Russian and Austrian empires. Fueled by the Romantic search for national roots, they developed a number of separate yet often overlapping and inclusive senses of national identity, thereby producing myriad versions of Russianness, Polishness, and Ukrainianness.
This is a review of a book that traces the rise of Russian nationalism in Russia's "southwestern borderlands" during the long 19th century. What gave rise to it was the socalled "Little Russian idea" ...that emphasized the existence of the Russian Orthodox organic nation that had originated in the right bank of the Dnieper. The elements of that idea survived well into the 20th century.
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