Post by Jaga on Feb 11, 2014 22:58:50 GMT -7
Guys,
I just posted great article (really good) by Martin Nowak about the history of Pan-Slavism at our website:
www.polishsite.us/index.php/politics-and-economy/eastern-europe-and-eu/499-the-concept-of-pan-slavism.html
here is the beginning of the article
The Slavic people are thought to have originated in what is now Ukraine, and dispersed Slavic countries in Europefrom there in various directions, eventually dividing into three linguistic-cultural groups: the East Slavs (Russians, Belarussians, Ukrainians), the South Slavs (Serbians, Croats, Montenegrans, Macedonians, Bosnians, Slovenes, Bulgarians), and the West Slavs (Poles, Czechs, Slovakians).
Pan-Slavism was a movement to unite the Slavic peoples into a political and cultural union. Its earliest proponent was a Croatian priest, Juraj Krizanic, who in the 1600s put forth the idea that the Slavs should unite in a grand empire under the Muscovite czar as a counterweight against the Germans and Turks.
This concept of union was not given much serious thought until the early nineteenth century. The term Pan-Slavism was coined in 1826 by the Slovak Jan Herkel, and it became prevalent due to the influence of the French Revolution, German romanticism and the fact that most of the Slavic peoples except Russians were subjugated by other, non-Slavic, ethnic groups.
A Pan-Slav Congress was held in Prague in June 1848, presided over by the Czech Frantisek Palacky. It was attended by mostly Czech delegates. Though Palacky favored a union of Slavs under the Austrian crown, the Congress as a whole had a decided anti-Austrian and anti-Russian flavor to it.
Concepts of Pan-Slavism were as varied and numerous as the Slavic nationalities themselves. Some favored a union within Austria, others thought Russia needed to be included in any such federation, others were suspicious of Russia. Still others rejected the idea entirely.
By the late nineteenth century, Russia had come to dominate the debate over Pan-Slavism. With the largest Slavic population and a huge land mass, as well as being a powerful empire, Russia was always the "eight hundred pound gorilla in the room."
read the rest at:
www.polishsite.us/index.php/politics-and-economy/eastern-europe-and-eu/499-the-concept-of-pan-slavism.html
I just posted great article (really good) by Martin Nowak about the history of Pan-Slavism at our website:
www.polishsite.us/index.php/politics-and-economy/eastern-europe-and-eu/499-the-concept-of-pan-slavism.html
here is the beginning of the article
The Slavic people are thought to have originated in what is now Ukraine, and dispersed Slavic countries in Europefrom there in various directions, eventually dividing into three linguistic-cultural groups: the East Slavs (Russians, Belarussians, Ukrainians), the South Slavs (Serbians, Croats, Montenegrans, Macedonians, Bosnians, Slovenes, Bulgarians), and the West Slavs (Poles, Czechs, Slovakians).
Pan-Slavism was a movement to unite the Slavic peoples into a political and cultural union. Its earliest proponent was a Croatian priest, Juraj Krizanic, who in the 1600s put forth the idea that the Slavs should unite in a grand empire under the Muscovite czar as a counterweight against the Germans and Turks.
This concept of union was not given much serious thought until the early nineteenth century. The term Pan-Slavism was coined in 1826 by the Slovak Jan Herkel, and it became prevalent due to the influence of the French Revolution, German romanticism and the fact that most of the Slavic peoples except Russians were subjugated by other, non-Slavic, ethnic groups.
A Pan-Slav Congress was held in Prague in June 1848, presided over by the Czech Frantisek Palacky. It was attended by mostly Czech delegates. Though Palacky favored a union of Slavs under the Austrian crown, the Congress as a whole had a decided anti-Austrian and anti-Russian flavor to it.
Concepts of Pan-Slavism were as varied and numerous as the Slavic nationalities themselves. Some favored a union within Austria, others thought Russia needed to be included in any such federation, others were suspicious of Russia. Still others rejected the idea entirely.
By the late nineteenth century, Russia had come to dominate the debate over Pan-Slavism. With the largest Slavic population and a huge land mass, as well as being a powerful empire, Russia was always the "eight hundred pound gorilla in the room."
read the rest at:
www.polishsite.us/index.php/politics-and-economy/eastern-europe-and-eu/499-the-concept-of-pan-slavism.html
