THE THIRD ROME – PERMANENT MYTH OF PAN-SLAVISM -
THE THIRD ROME – PERMANENT MYTH OF PAN-SLAVISM -

Summary/Abstract: Russia, from Peter the Great, fervently desired to become a European Russia and a powerful state in the world arena, thus its political, social and especially economic policy. Russian messianism appears as the myth of the Third Rome, the Russian Orthodox Church being a vital supporter of the state in its actions meant to protect all Russians, a veritable divine mission, in essence, the Church and the State being ontologically united. Around this myth there were born subsequent ideals of Russia – the populist movement, Slavophilism, nationalism, socialism and the tsarist and Soviet imperialism.

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