An idea of all-Slavic unity and First Slavic Congress in “Confession” of Mikhail Bakunin Cover Image

Идея всеславянского единства и Первый Славянский конгресс в Исповеди Михаила Бакунина
An idea of all-Slavic unity and First Slavic Congress in “Confession” of Mikhail Bakunin

Author(s): Ludmiła Łucewicz
Subject(s): Language and Literature Studies, Studies of Literature
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Warmińsko-Mazurskiego w Olsztynie
Keywords: Mikhail Bakunin; Confession; First Slavic Congress;

Summary/Abstract: In the spotlight of the author there is a Confession of Mikhail Bakunin that is the unique personal,historical and political document. The letter was created by the prisoner of the Petropavlovsk fortress,state prisoner, and in the past one of the most committed Russian philosophers-Hegelians on thedemand of the emperor Nikolay I. In the article it is considered: 1) an idea of Slavic unity, as it wasunderstood by the Russian radical thinker; it was aimed to complete the destruction of all existingempires where Slavs lived: Ottoman, Austrian, Russian; and create the Great free Slavic federation ontheir ruins, with the capital in Constantinople; 2) the problems, considered by Bakunin in connectionwith organization and realization of the First Slavic Congress in Prague in 1848 (prehistory, culturalconstituent, structure, lay-out of political forces and interests, fight of parties, national opposition);3) the negative attitude of Bakunin towards modern Russia and her claims on all-Slavic domination;as well as the general negative opinion about the Congress.

  • Issue Year: 2015
  • Issue No: XX
  • Page Range: 67-74
  • Page Count: 8
  • Language: Russian