Pan-Slavism

[ pan-slah-viz-uhm, -slav-iz- ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

Pan-Slavism

(esp in the 19th century) the movement for the union of the Slavic peoples, esp under the hegemony of tsarist Russia

First recorded in 1840–50; pan- + Slavism

Pan-Slavism, which was dominating the Russian policy to an ever greater degree, had positive anti-German tendencies.

Pan-Slavism or Pan-Germanism, based upon a racial bond, would be a far more significant political idea.

It was made to elect between pan-Slavism and pan-capitalism.

And he was as strongly repelled by Dostoevsky's shrieking Pan-Slavism as by his sensationalism among horrors.

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