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Definition: Pan–Slavism from Merriam-Webster's Collegiate(R) Dictionary

(1850) : a political and cultural movement orig. emphasizing the cultural ties between the Slavic peoples but later associated with Russian expansionism

Pan–Slav•ic \-॑sla-vik, -॑slä-\ adj

Pan–Slav•ist \-॑slä-vist, -॑sla-\ n


Pan-Slavism

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
theory and movement intended to promote the political or cultural unity of all Slavs . Advocated by various individuals from the 17th cent., it developed as an intellectual and cultural movement in the 19th cent. It was stimulated by the rise of romanticism and nationalism, and it grew with the awakening of the Slavs within the Austrian and Ottoman empires. Slavic historians, philologists, and anthropologists, influenced by Johann Gottfried von Herder, helped spread a national consciousness among the Slavs, and some dreamed of a unified Slavic culture to replace an allegedly declining Latin-German culture. The first Pan-Slav Congress, held at Prague in 1848 and presided over by František Palacký , was confined to the Slavs under Austrian rule and was anti-Russian. The humiliating defeat suffered by Russia in the Crimean War (1853–56) helped transform a vague, romantic Russian Slavophilism into a militant and nationalistic Russian Pan-Slavism. Prominent among the Russian Pan-Slav…
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From Encyclopedia of the Romantic Era, 1760-1850
While today generally associated with Russian aspirations for hegemony, the Pan-Slavism that emerged during the Romantic period denotes the movement of the disparate Slav people of Europe toward the recognition of their common ethnic background, and their various attempts to achieve a unified front…
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From The Columbia Encyclopedia
theory and movement intended to promote the political or cultural unity of all Slavs . Advocated by various individuals from the 17th cent., it developed as an intellectual and cultural movement in the 19th cent. It was stimulated by the rise of romanticism and nationalism, and it grew with the…
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From Britannica Concise Encyclopedia
Movement to unite Slav peoples of eastern and central Europe. It began in the early 19th century when Slav intellectuals studied their common cultures. Political goals for Slavic unity increased in 1848, when a Slav congress organized by František Palacký met in Prague to press for equal rights…
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From Palgrave Macmillan Dictionary of Political Thought
Two movements which date from the late nineteenth century and which were strongly influenced by the intellectual currents of nineteenth-century nationalism . They each aimed to unite under common political institutions people with a common language or related languages and, according to the theory, …
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Full text Article Ignatyev, Nikolay (Pavlovich) Count

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(born , Jan. 29, 1832, St. Petersburg, Russia—died July 3, 1908, Krupodernitsy estate, Kiev province) Russian politician and diplomat under Tsar Alexander II . A career diplomat, he concluded a treaty with China in 1860 that allowed Russia to construct the city of Vladivostok and become a major…
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