"All studies in the volume combine in-depth analysis and precise language with a broad, synthetic approach. They bring survey results of unquestionable value into the academic conversation. Another strong point is bibliographical comprehensiveness. Unlike many publications on such themes, the volume includes not only chapters by Western academics or the Ukrainian scholars best known in the West; researchers from academic centres across Ukraine are also represented. Yaroslav Hrytsak writes in this volume that 'the more is known about regionalism, the more pertinent and sophisticated are the questions that have to be formulated.' The reviewed book is good proof of this guideline."

- Grzegorz Skrukwa, Canadian Slavonic Papers

"The book is far more than a collection of thematic contributions; it is united by a single research design and based on the results of the international collaborative project Region, Nation and Beyond, hosted by the University of St. Gallen. The main findings of the research project (probably one of the last ones that include Crimea and Donbas) sheds light on Ukrainian society on the eve of the Euromaidan and thus helps to relativize the deterministic discourse of Ukraine as a regionally-divided country deemed to be disintegrating. The picture of Ukrainian society thus appears as much more complex, with regional patterns being complemented by generational, socio-economic, and gender differences. Last but not least, the book is generously illustrated with highly instructive tables, diagrams, and maps."

- Tatiana Zhurzhenko, Slavic Review

"The authors have woven a very interesting stand-alone narrative that demonstrates the complexities of Ukraine’s historical development. Readers will need to decide for themselves whether cross-regional differences (and nuances) actually tell us something that we really need to know in order to better understand the challenges to Ukraine’s nation-building project—the importance of which cannot be underestimated and is not in dispute—and whether these sub-macroregional differences are in fact more important than the broader regional divide that separates the ‘Two Ukraines’, each with their easily discernible and contrasting ideological visions for Ukraine’s future."
https://doi.org/10.1080/09668136.2021.1977042

- Roman Solchanyk, Europe-Asia Studies