СЛОВЕНОФИЛСТВОТО И МАКЕДОНСКИТЕ И УКРАИНСКИТЕ ИНТЕЛЕКТУАЛЦИ
SLAVOPHILIA IDEOLOGY AND MACEDONIAN AND UKRAINIAN INTELLECTUALS

Summary/Abstract: Macedonian and Ukrainian histories are in many things identical, because both nations being Slavs, involved in centuries-long struggles to keep the integrity of their territories, their languages, their culture, their tradition and most of all their identity. Geopolitics of the great powers was the same for centuries for both nations: how to divide their territories and to adopt their cultural tradition. Both nations, however never stopped fighting for the acknowledgement of their origin, for the name they rightfully own for millenniums. The Slav people under foreign authority accepted the idea of Slav Federation, pushed through by Slavophile, where all the Slav people would be autonomous and equal without any foreign domination. Being under such a tremendous pressure this idea was acceptable for both Macedonia and Ukraine. This collective input slowed down the development of the national identity with both nations. As Rjabjuk said their "regional" near national identity contributed to creating the multiregional, supranational identity. But the politics of Russia was not equal for all Slav people, like Macedonian and Ukrainian. There for in the middle of the 19 century bout intellectuals live Slavophilia.

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