NOVÁ SLOVANSKÁ POLITIKA
NEW SLAV POLITICS

Author(s): Edvard Beneš
Subject(s): Post-War period (1950 - 1989), Period(s) of Nation Building
Published by: CEEOL Digital Reproductions / Collections
Keywords: Vladimír Žikeš;
Summary/Abstract: Since the end of the 18th century, the question of the liberation of the Slavic peoples has been on the agenda of European politics. Even the Russians, as the only Slavic people with a free state at that time, were not politically free under the tsarist regime. The French and American revolutions and the English constitutional revolution of the end of the 18th century and the beginning of the 19th century were also a command for the Slavic peoples to fight for national freedom and for modern political freedoms in general. The state of lack of freedom and the common suffering of the Slavic peoples then gave rise among them to the political idea of Slavic community and mutual assistance. This idea then became, from the beginning of the 19th century, the basis for the formulation of a number of concepts of the so-called Slavic politics. Since the first modern Russian expansion into Byzantium and the Balkans in the 18th century, the political idea of a Slavic community remained at first in the theoretical field: first it was the concept of Kollár's Slavic humanism (1837) and Polish messianism in the mid-19th century, and then immediately in Russia also in the 19th century (1845) it took the form of the Slavophilism of Kireyevsky, Khomyakov and Aksakov. From the theoretical Slavophilism, from the 1880s onwards, it first led to practical, extremely reactionary political plans of Pan-Slavism and Pan-Russian (Danilevskii), and when these proved impossible and unviable, a new attempt was made with bourgeois-liberal neo-Slavism (from 1900 to 1914).

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